Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
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