Charlie Chaplin Quotes

The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

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.

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

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

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

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

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

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

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

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

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

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

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.

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 men's happiness.

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.

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.

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

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

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.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] 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.