“Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.”

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.

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.

We do not suffer by accident.

There is nothing that is an accident.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.