Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We think too much and feel too little.

In the end, everything is a gag.

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

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.

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

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

Imagination means nothing without doing.

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

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

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

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

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

I am for people. I can’t help it.

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.

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

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

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.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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

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

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.

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

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.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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

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.

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

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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

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

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

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

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

I am a citizen of the world.

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

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

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

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

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

What a sad business, being funny

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Making fun is a serious business.

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

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

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

Life is an expression of want.

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

I am an individual and a believer in liberty.

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

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

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

Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.

Our tragedies are only as big as we make them.

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

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

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

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

Acting essentially requires feeling.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

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

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

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

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

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

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

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

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

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.

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

Let us fight to free the world!

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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!

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

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

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

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

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.