“Deep down we all have a sense of our own inadequacy about coping with life.”

Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole.

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.

Whomever lives, gambles with life.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

My only enemy is time.

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful.

I am an artist, not a politician.

Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.

Our tragedies are only as big as we make them.

My tramp is made up of mimicry.

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

The desire for peace is universal.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

I’m unconscious while I’m acting. I live the role and am not myself.

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

In all truth there is the seed of falsehood.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.