If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.