More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness - Charlie Chaplin

ومن الحقائق العجيبة في عالم الخلق الكوميدي أن المآسي عادة توحي بالسخرية : لأن السخرية في أعتقادي موقف من مواقف التحدي. فنحن نسخر في مواجهة القوي التي نقف أمامها عاجزين وإلا أصابنا الجنون .

In San Francisco one felt the spirit of optimism and enterprise. Los Angeles, on the other hand, was an ugly city, hot and oppressive, and the people looked sallow and anaemic. It was a much warmer climate but had not the freshness of San Francisco; nature has endowed the north of California with resources that will endure and flourish when Hollywood has disappeared into the prehistoric tar-pits of Wilshire Boulevard.

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.