“Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.”

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Let us try to understand each other’s problems, for in modern warfare there is no victory.

We think too much and feel too little.

People’s affection hurts me but it’s a beautiful pain.

One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one’s fellow man.

What a sad business, being funny.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Let’s call them years of a friendly misalliance.

The world cannot be wrong if in this world there’s you.

My costume helps me to express my conception of the average man, of almost any man, of myself.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I am an artist. I am interested in life.

I see no tragedy in the loneliness of old age, only the convenience of it.

Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

I search for comedy scripts / I watch happy shows / In hopes that laughter will be the remedy I end my day with.

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I think it’s that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It’s just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn’t expect me in comedies or musicals.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action pictures.