"Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-…"

"Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify."

"I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man."

"I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politi…"

"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 …"

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

"I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything."

"I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas. Without faith, there never could have evolved hypothesis, theor…"

"I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a …"

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I shoul…"