A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, 'Look at the poor dope, wilya?

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Reconciliation means - in victory, I win and you're wrong, and then you lose.

Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

We need practice solving problems.

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

I would love to study cultures and people.

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

I want to win championships.