In the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.
In the end, everything is a gag.
In all truth there is the seed of falsehood.
Imagination means nothing without doing.
If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s a wonderful guidance.
If only the old and young could be the same age.
If a gag interfered with the logic of events, no matter how funny it was, I would not use it.
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. I wanted everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
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 hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.
I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty, or who finds freedom in it.
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.