Charlie chaplin quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

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

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

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

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

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

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

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

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

Smile, though your heart is aching Smile, even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your pain and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow, You'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

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

I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. 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. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.

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

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

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

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

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

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.

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.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

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

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

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

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.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

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

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.

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

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

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

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.

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

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

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

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

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

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!

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

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

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

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

Life salutes u when u make others happy

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART".

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

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

There is greatness in everyone.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

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

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

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

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

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

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

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

In the end, everything is a gag.

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

We think too much and feel too little.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

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

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

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.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

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.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there's something just as inevitable as death, and that's life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that's in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you if you only have courage and the will to use it.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

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

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

In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

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

Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

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

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

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

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

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.

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

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

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

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

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

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

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

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

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

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don`t know that. They always smile