Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature — or go insane.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

I hope that the entertainment I give has some lasting effect on people. I hope they see the beauty that I myself am seeking. I am trying to express a beauty that embraces not only physical characteristics and scenes, but the true fundamental emotions of humanity. Beauty. Beauty is what I am after.

“I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination ... and a little dough.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. 

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

What a sad business, being funny 

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning!

Whomever lives, gambles with life.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.

“You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”

“What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.”

“Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination … and a little dough.”

“To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” 

“Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no Applause.”

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

“I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.” – 

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” 

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

“We think too much and feel too little.”

“The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.”

I am for people. I can’t help it.”

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.”

Imagination means nothing without doing.

You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

I am a citizen of the world.

We think too much and feel too little.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life – doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil – of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. 

Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.