Charlie Chaplin

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
– Charlie Chaplin

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.
– Charlie Chaplin

That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
– Charlie Chaplin

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

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
– Charlie Chaplin

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
– Charlie Chaplin

If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s a wonderful guidance.
– Charlie Chaplin

Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination… and a
little dough.
– Charlie Chaplin

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
– Charlie Chaplin

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

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
– Charlie Chaplin

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

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
– Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
– Charlie Chaplin

You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
– Charlie Chaplin

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table… I hope we
shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.
– Charlie Chaplin

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.
– Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
– Charlie Chaplin

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.
– Charlie Chaplin

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
– Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.
– Charlie Chaplin

I don’t think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans.
– Charlie Chaplin

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
– Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
– Charlie Chaplin

I have yet to find a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty.
– Charlie Chaplin

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
– 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

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
– Charlie Chaplin

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.
– Charlie Chaplin

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.
– Charlie Chaplin

Imagination means nothing without doing.
– 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

A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.
– Charlie Chaplin

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

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish.
– Charlie Chaplin