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Quotes by Actor


"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."


"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

"People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know."


"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."


"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs."


"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."


"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."


"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."


"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."


"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."


"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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