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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Thank you so much. This is an emotional moment for me and words seem so futile, so feeble... I can only say that... thank you for the honor of inviting me here and... oh... you're wonderful, sweet people. Thank you. - on returning to Los Angeles after a 20-year self-imposed exile to accept his honorary Oscar in 1971
I like friends as I like music, when I am in the mood. To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
The minute you bought your ticket you were in another world.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of oneself.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
I'd give anything to know what he thought of it. - on being informed that Hitler sat through two screenings of "The Great Dictator"
In the end, everything is a gag.
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
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