Charlie Chaplin Quotes

Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

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

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

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

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

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

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.

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

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

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

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.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

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

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

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

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

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

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

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

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

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

What a sad business is being funny!

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.

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.