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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.