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• Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
• Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor.…
• Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a…
• What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
• They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.
• I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by…
• I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all…
• All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?
• The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how…
• If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
• A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.
• The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the…

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