Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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.

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.

The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

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

You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

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

More than machinery, we need humanity.

In the end, everything is a gag.

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

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

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

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

In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that 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.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

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

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 think too much and feel too little.

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.

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

Imagination means nothing without doing.

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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