Think about yourself at least once in your life. Otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Making fun is serious business.

I could kill laughs more quickly by overdoing something than by any other method.