Charlie Chaplin
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.Collection: Power
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.Collection: God
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.Collection: Movies
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.Collection: Imagination
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.Collection: Patience
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.Collection: Romantic
A day without laughter is a day wasted.Collection: Humor
Why should poetry have to make sense?Collection: Poetry
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.Collection: Money
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.Collection: Life
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.Collection: Men
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Collection: Courage
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Happiness
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.Collection: Chance
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
We think too much and feel too little.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
In the end, everything is a gag.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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.
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
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.
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.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
We might as well die as to go on living like this.
The glamour of it all! New York! America!
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
I am for people. I can't help it.
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.Collection: Life
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.Collection: Life
The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.Collection: Dream
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.Collection: Inspirational
You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...Collection: Uplifting
It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.Collection: Jerk
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.Collection: Love
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.Collection: Beautiful