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.

— Charlie Chaplin

We are all amateurs. We don't have enough time to be anything else.

— Charlie Chaplin

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

— Charlie Chaplin

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

— 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.

— Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

— Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

— Charlie Chaplin

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

— Charlie Chaplin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

— Charlie Chaplin

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

— Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

— Charlie Chaplin

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

— Charlie Chaplin

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

— Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

— Charlie Chaplin

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

— Charlie Chaplin

We think too much and feel too little.

— Charlie Chaplin

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

— Charlie Chaplin

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

— Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

— Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

— Charlie Chaplin

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

— Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

— Charlie Chaplin

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

— Charlie Chaplin

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

— Charlie Chaplin

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

— Charlie Chaplin

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

— Charlie Chaplin

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

— Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

— Charlie Chaplin

Why should poetry have to make sense?

— Charlie Chaplin

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

— Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

— Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

— Charlie Chaplin

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

— Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

— Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

— Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.

— Charlie Chaplin

I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man.

— Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

— Charlie Chaplin

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities — a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

— Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

— Charlie Chaplin

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

— Charlie Chaplin

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.

— Charlie Chaplin

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism — and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.

— Charlie Chaplin

Look up to the sky If you’re looking down.

— Charlie Chaplin

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

Hynkel, the dictator, ruled the nation with an iron fist. Under the new emblem of the double cross, liberty was banished, free speech was suppressed and only the voice of Hynkel was heard.

— Charlie Chaplin

[Hynkel addressing the crowds, referring to his colleagues: clearly modelled upon Göring and Goebbels] Translator: His excellency has just referred to the struggles of his early days shared by his two loyal comrades.

— Charlie Chaplin

Schultz: You must speak. Schultz: It's our only hope.

— Charlie Chaplin

Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

— Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

— Charlie Chaplin

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

— Charlie Chaplin

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

— Charlie Chaplin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

— Charlie Chaplin

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

— Charlie Chaplin

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

— Charlie Chaplin