“What a sad business, being funny.”

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

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

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Acting essentially requires feeling.

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.

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 want to become an entertainment, tech, and business mogul just in general.

I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

Every big achievement of life starts with a single thought.

No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it.

Remember why you started. Your “WHY” will keep you going.

The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.