Charlie Chaplin
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insaneCollection: Attitude
Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.Collection: Fun
Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.Collection: Children
Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.Collection: Feelings
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.Collection: Mother
In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.Collection: Funny
During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.Collection: Mother
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!Collection: Names
Why not? After all, it belongs to him.Collection: Bad Ass
Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.Collection: Animal
What a sad business is being funny!Collection: Sadness
Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.Collection: Benefits
You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.Collection: Beautiful
I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.Collection: Jesus
I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.Collection: Hate
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.Collection: War
In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Humor
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.Collection: Beautiful
As long as men die, liberty will never parish.Collection: Men
Let us fight to free the world!Collection: Fighting
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.Collection: Next
In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.Collection: Attitude
I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.Collection: Want
From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.Collection: Believe
The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.Collection: Hate
If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.Collection: Nostalgia
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.Collection: Men
They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.Collection: Cheer
I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.Collection: Friendship
Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.Collection: Pain
Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn’t Give Pain To Anybody.Collection: Laughing
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.Collection: Character
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.Collection: Relationship
You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure...Collection: Beautiful
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.Collection: Smile
Don’t be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!Collection: Stars
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But, life salutes you when you make others happy.Collection: Laughing
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.Collection: Yoga
Greed has poisoned men’s souls.Collection: Greed
I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don’t know that. They always smile.Collection: Smile
One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero.Collection: Hero
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world!Collection: Struggle
To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.Collection: Progress