The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...