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

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

I am for people. I can't help it.

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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

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.