We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

No vice is so bad as advice.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

You're only as good as your last picture.