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.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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.

A mans true character comes out when hes drunk.

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

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.

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!

My pain may be the reason for somebodys laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebodys pain

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Look up to the sky You'll never find rainbows If you're looking down.

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

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

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

We think too much and feel too little.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know that. They always smile.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

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

My pain may be the reason for somebodys laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebodys pain.

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

Brunettes are troublemakers. Theyre worse than the Jews.

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

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.

In the end, everything is a gag.

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

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

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

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

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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

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

Youll never find a rainbow if youre looking down.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

Life could be so wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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

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

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

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