"Comedy has had no history, because it..." - Quote by Aristotle

“Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.”

“Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.”

“With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”

“The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike.”

“It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.”

“The only weapon we have is comedy.”

“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”

“The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.”

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”