Charles Chaplin “In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.”

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Charles Chaplin

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

“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
― Charles Chaplin

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

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

“We think too much and feel too little.”
― Charles Chaplin

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

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

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

“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”
― Charles Chaplin

“I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. 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. We don't want to hate and despise one another. 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. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. 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. 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. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! 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. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. 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. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!”
― Charles Chaplin

“What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.”
― Charles Chaplin, My Life In Pictures

“Imagination means nothing without doing.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Like everyone else 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.”
― Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough”
― Charles Chaplin

“That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”
― Charles Chaplin

“In the end, everything is a gag.”
― Charles Chaplin

“I will not join any club who will take me as a member”
― Charles 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”
― Charles Chaplin

“In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs”
― Charles Chaplin

“Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.”
― Charles Chaplin

“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Je n'ai pas besoin d'être réconcilié avec Dieu, mon conflit est avec les hommes.”
― Charles 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”
― Charles Chaplin

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

“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.
But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”
― Charles Chaplin

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

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

“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.”
― Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography

“From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.”
― Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography

“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.”
― Charles Chaplin

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

“In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.”
― Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography

 “Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, 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! Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world . . .”
― Charles Chaplin

 “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
― Charles Chaplin