You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

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.