“I'm not black on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman on Thursday, Friday and Saturday” 

“we don’t know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But” 

“Everyone has a home but me.” 

“The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.” 

“There is power in proximity. Get close to the problem you feel drawn to. Change the narrative. Stay hopeful. Be willing to do uncomfortable things.” 

“Secrets have power only as long as they are secret.” 

“MY LAST HOPE IS to open up the road—literally. So far it’s been overwhelmingly masculine turf. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.” 

“Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River.” 

“This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.” 

“Only after I saw women who were attracted to distant, condescending, even violent men did I begin to understand that having a distant, condescending, even violent father could make those qualities seem inevitable, even feel like home. Because of my father, only kindness felt like home.” 

“Not only had I never made any such complaints, but at political meetings, I had given my suggestions to whatever man was sitting next to me, knowing that if a man offered them, they would be taken more seriously. You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don’t stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?” 

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 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.