Charlie Chaplin Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

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

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Let us fight to free the world!

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

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.

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

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

More than machinery, we need humanity.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

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

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

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

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

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.

A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.

The soul of man has been given wings and at last, he is beginning to fly!

You can do anything if you don’t have a vulgar mind.

Acting essentially requires feeling.

The cold, hunger and the shame of poverty are more likely to affect one’s psychology.

Fortune and ill-fortune drift upon one haphazardly as clouds.

I have that priceless quality of being curious about life and things which keeps up my enthusiasm.

The pursuit of happiness can only be had from within ourselves and the interest of others.

Our tragedies are only as big as we make them.

Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.

Meeting people formally is like viewing a house without going inside.

I did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain.

I always try to do the unexpected in a novel way.

I am an individual and a believer in liberty.

You have to believe in yourself, that’s the secret.

Life is an expression of want.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

In the realm of the unknown, there is an infinite power for good.

Wisdom usually grows upon us like calluses when we are old, gnarled, and bent.

Making fun is a serious business.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.

Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

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

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature — or go insane.

What a sad business, being funny

The deeper the truth in creative work, the longer it will live.

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

If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s wonderful guidance.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

I am a citizen of the world.

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed impossible.

You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.

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

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

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no Applause.

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

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

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

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

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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.

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

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

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.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

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

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination … and a little dough.

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

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

Imagination means nothing without doing.

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

That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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

In the end, everything is a gag.

We think too much and feel too little.

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

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

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

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

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

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

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