Charlie Chaplin

“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.”

“We are all amateurs. We don't have enough time to be anything else.”

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“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.”

“In the end, everything is a gag.”

“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”

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

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

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

“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”

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

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

“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”

“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”

“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.”

“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.”

“We think too much and feel too little.”

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

“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”

“I am for people. I can't help it.”

“We might as well die as to go on living like this.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”

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

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.”

“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”

“Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.”

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

“Why should poetry have to make sense?”

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

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”

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

“The glamour of it all! New York! America!”

“In the end, everything is a gag.”

“Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.”

“I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”

“That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.”

“I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man.”

“I am for people. I can't help it.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”

“I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.”

“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.”

“Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you — if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.”

“I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.”

“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.”

“Look up to the sky If you’re looking down.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.”

“Hynkel, the dictator, ruled the nation with an iron fist. Under the new emblem of the double cross, liberty was banished, free speech was suppressed and only the voice of Hynkel was heard.”

“[Hynkel addressing the crowds, referring to his colleagues: clearly modelled upon Göring and Goebbels] Translator: His excellency has just referred to the struggles of his early days shared by his two loyal comrades.”

“Schultz: You must speak. Schultz: It's our only hope.”

“Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”

“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”

“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.”

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”

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

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

“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“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.”

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