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

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

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

"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

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

"One must, from time to time, attempt things beyond one's capacity."

"It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain."

"If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix..."

"Nature: I give to thee for thy defence Thy formidable innocence."

"The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."