What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.

The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

I don't feel qualified to talk about my work.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind