The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Acting, Actors
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
—Charlie Chaplin
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.
—Charlie Chaplin
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Patience
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
—Charlie Chaplin
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.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Beauty
Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.
—Charlie Chaplin
I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Public
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
—Charlie Chaplin
You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.
—Charlie Chaplin
Why should poetry have to make sense?
—Charlie Chaplin
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Laughter, One liners
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Comedy
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Comedy, Girls
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Conflict
You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.
—Charlie Chaplin
You have to believe in yourself, that’s the secret. 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.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Confidence
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
—Charlie Chaplin
In the end, everything is a gag.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Humor
There’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life.
—Charlie Chaplin
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
—Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Wealth, Luxury
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