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

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.

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.

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.