Words matter. These are the best Charlie Chaplin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.
Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
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.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
In the end, everything is a gag.
We might as well die as to go on living like this.
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
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 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.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
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.
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 is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
The glamour of it all! New York! America!
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 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 at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.