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

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

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.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane