The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.