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.

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.