Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

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.

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

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.

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.

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