We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.

Beloved King of Comedy.

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.

[On Bonnie Prince Charlie:] Oh, Charlie is my darling, / My darling, my darling; / Oh, Charlie is my darling, / The young Chevalier.

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.