When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

The road is better than the inn.