Charlie Chaplin Quotes & Sayings

#1. There is greatness in everyone.

#2. It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

#3. Guarda il cielo. Non troverai mai un arcobaleno se stai guardando per terra.
Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down.

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#4. A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

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#5. I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. That which can be imagined is as much an approximation to truth as that which can be proved by mathematics.

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#6. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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#7. You will never find a rainbow if you are looking down

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#8. As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

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#9. Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

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#10. In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. Imagination means nothing without doing.

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#15. I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know that. They just keep smiling.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

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

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#19. Life salutes u when u make others happy

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#20. I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

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

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

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#23. Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

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

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#25. To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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#26. The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

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#27. 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.

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#28. I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

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#29. You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

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#30. I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

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#31. And I am going to have another opportunity. I am going to have a week-end with him at his home in Easton, a week-end with Wells at home, with just his family. That alone is worth the entire trip from Los Angeles to Europe.

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#32. As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

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#33. Nothing is more important than the moving image;
except for my cup of coffee in the morning.

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#34. 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

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#35. Let us fight to free the world

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#36. Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.

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#37. Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

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#38. 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.

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#39. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

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#40. 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.

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#41. In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

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#42. In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

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

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

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#45. The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

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#46. Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

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#47. 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.

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#48. Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics,

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

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#50. Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

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#51. To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

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#52. Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

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#53. Procreation is nature's principal occupation, and every man, whether he be young or old, when meeting every woman measures the potentiality of sex between them.

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

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#55. 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.

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#56. You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

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

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#58. I remember when one dressed the part for the West End, and strolled with yellow gloves and a walking-stick. But that world has gone, and another takes its place, eyes see differently, emotions react to other themes. Men weep at jazz, and violence has become sexual. Time marches on.

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#59. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness.

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#60. I am for people. I can't help it.

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#61. Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

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#62. You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

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#63. I love rain because tears can not be seen in rain.

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#64. I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

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#65. So when I cease to be I want to go back ... to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

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

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#67. From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

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#68. The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

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

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#70. 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.

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#71. Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

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#72. Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

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#73. I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

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#74. Simplicity of approach is always best.

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

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#76. Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

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#77. That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

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

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#79. 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.

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

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#81. Greed has poisoned men's souls

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#82. I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

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#83. I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

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

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#85. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

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#86. Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

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#87. Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

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#88. I see so little of you these days; your presence is as rare as that of one's discarded mistress.

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#89. Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

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#90. The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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

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#92. My only enemy is time.

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

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#94. Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.

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