When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

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.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.