Charlie Chaplin Quotes
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
In the end, everything is a gag.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
I am what I am: an individual, unique and different.
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
You can always stoop and pick up nothing.
We think too much and feel too little.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe; turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you, if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
I am an individual and a believer in liberty.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table...
Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
We think too much and feel to little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindess and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...
I am for people. I can't help it.
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
