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

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

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.

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

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.

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.

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