All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Simplicity is not a simple thing.