Charlie Chaplin Quotations | Page 2

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!

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

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

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. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism — and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

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

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world!

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

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

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

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

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.

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There is greatness in everyone.

One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

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

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

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

What a sad business is being funny!

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

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

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

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.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

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

In the 17th Chapter of St. Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. ... 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 mens happiness.

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.

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

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

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

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

In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.

Greed has poisoned men's souls

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

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 don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

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

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.

Life salutes u when u make others happy

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

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.

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities — a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

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

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

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

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

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'.

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

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.

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

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

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

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

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

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

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

Let us fight to free the world

The most wasted day in life is the day in which one has not laughed....

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

It seems our laws are always telling us what not to do - are always keeping us from enjoying ourselves. Human beings are made just as much for having fun as goose-stepping and sweating in factories.