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

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

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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

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

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

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.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

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

My only enemy is time.

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

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

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

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.

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

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

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

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

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

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

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

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

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

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

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

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

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

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

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

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

If people know how it's done, all the magic goes.

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

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.

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

Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

In the end, everything is a gag.

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!

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

A day without laughing is a day wasted

What a sad business is being funny!

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

Life salutes u when u make others happy

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

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

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

Guarda il cielo. Non troverai mai un arcobaleno se stai guardando per terra.
Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down.

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.

The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

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

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

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

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

Nothing is more important than the moving image;
except for my cup of coffee in the morning.

There is greatness in everyone.

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

Greed has poisoned men's souls

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

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

I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know that. They just keep smiling.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

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

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

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.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

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

That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness.

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

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

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

Simplicity of approach is always best.

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

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

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.

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

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

My lips never know my problem they just always smile

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

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

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