“My only enemy is time.”

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.

That is all there is in life – beauty. You find that and you have found everything.

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.

In the end, everything is a gag.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see – Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.