In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning!
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish.
To live in order to reason or reason in order to live; there is the question.
Imagination means nothing without doing.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.
We might as well die as to go on living like this.
To be out on a night like this you must be an optimist
Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
I have yet to find a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty
A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.
The public never knows what it wants, only what it doesn't want.
One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow.
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
I am but one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a higher plane than any politician.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon. (Mr Verdoux)
Humor is the sublime wisdom of pity and tolerance in which man recognizes the utter futility of his own enterprise and importance.
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.
They walked out on me. They haven't done that since I was a beginner. The cycle's complete.
Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
The roses you lifted to your lips ... lucky roses!
