"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot"

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

"RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead."

"Truth is subject to too much analysis."

"You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have."

"You can delegate authority, but not responsibility."