There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
That’s what all we are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.
I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don’t know that. They always smile.
Why should poetry have to make sense?
They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.
Simplicity is not a simple thing.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
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.
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for LIBERTY! You, the people have the power – the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.