"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."

"Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work."

"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly."

"When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs."

"PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence."

"It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."

"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"