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’m an old weed. The more I’m cut down, the more I spring up again.
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 on to the stage he was fully born.
I am for people. I can’t help it.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.
Humor is the ability to discern in a kindly way the folly in what is considered normal, sublime behavior, and to discern the discrepancy in what appears as a truth.
