"Once again, the same depressing question arose: should I make another silent film? I knew I would take a big risk by doing it. If I spoke, I would become an actor like the others."

"That's what all we are. Amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else."

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain."

"The human race is a wonderful thing, but it's also a very foolish thing."

"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."