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Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler. — Ben Chaplin

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

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

Why should poetry have to make sense? — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

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. — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin. — Satyajit Ray

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

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

Life could be wonder full
if people would leave you alone ... — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

Imagination means nothing without doing. — Charlie Chaplin

Marilyn Monroe is pissing me off, Charlie Chaplin owes me twenty bucks, that fucker Shrek tried to fuck my girlfriend at Baskin Robbins. — David Louden

I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children. — Oona Chaplin

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity. — Ralph Chaplin

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less. — Samuel Goldwyn

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles? — Buster Keaton

I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth. — Ashley Jensen

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window. — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin

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

Let us fight to free the world — Charlie Chaplin

I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters. — Oona Chaplin

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

Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman while Buster Keaton wasn't. — French Stewart

We think too much and feel too little. — Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977

There is greatness in everyone. — Charlie Chaplin

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning. — Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself. — Lita Grey

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

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. — Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin is no businessman — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish. — Charlie Chaplin

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

My lips never know my problem they just always smile — Charlie Chaplin

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. — Billy Wilder

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty. — Eddie Murphy

I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going. — Oona Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance. — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog. — Philippe Petit

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness — Charlie Chaplin

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies. — Jon Landau

I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it. — Geraldine Chaplin

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics, — Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve. — Charlie Chaplin

I like clothes that are simple and preferably cheap unless I'm being given it for free. — Ben Chaplin

The Gold Rush(1925) affirmed Charlie Chaplin's belief that tragedy and comedy are never far apart. — Steven Jay Schneider

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. — Charlie Chaplin

I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin. — Stan Laurel

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? — Geraldine Chaplin

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

Just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they're alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they're lonely. — Jason Daniel Chaplin

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

Simplicity is not a simple thing. — Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

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

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

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. — Charlie Chaplin

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

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

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin. — Alex Winter

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

Who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul. — Charles Chaplin

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

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man. — Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up. — Charlie Chaplin

Greed has poisoned men's souls — Charlie Chaplin

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews. — Charlie Chaplin

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. — Ralph Chaplin

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

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. — Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside. — Charlie Chaplin

There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. — John Lasseter

You will never find a rainbow if you are looking down — Charlie Chaplin

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

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy. — Charlie Chaplin

Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy. — Jason Daniel Chaplin

I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60. — Bronson Pinchot