In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

Imagination means nothing without doing.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

What a sad business is being funny!

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

my lips never know my problem they just always smile