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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
Imagination means nothing without doing.
— Charlie Chaplin
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
Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
— Buster Keaton
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
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
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
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
— Geraldine 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
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