The 101 Best Phrases by Charles Chaplin

I leave you the best Quotes by Charles Chaplin , Comedian, actor, director, writer, composer and British producer who died in 1977. He is regarded as one of the great actors and comedians in the history of cinema.

You may also like These quotes from Groucho Marx .

Quotes by Charles Chaplin

1-"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a loner, always waiting for romance and adventure."

2-"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

3-"All I need to do a comedy is a park, a cop and a cute girl."

4-"Nothing is permanent in this twisted world, not even our problems."

5-"To truly laugh, you must be able to bear the pain, and play with it."

6-"Life is a tragedy when you look in the foreground, but a comedy in the making broad."

7-"We think too much and feel very little."

8-"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the cessation of pain."

9-"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning."

10-"I am at peace with God, my conflict is with man."

11-"Life could be wonderful if people will leave you alone."

12-"I have no patience with a beautiful thing that must be explained to understand. If you need additional interpretation by someone other than your creator, I question whether you have fulfilled your purpose."

13-"In the end, everything is a gag."

14-"The saddest thing I can imagine is getting used to luxury."

15-"The true character of a man comes to light when he is drunk."

16-"The glamor of everything! NY! U.S!"

17-"I no longer have use for the United States, I would not return if Jesus Christ were the president."

18-"I thought that I would dress myself in wide trousers, great shoes, a staff and a bowler. All a contradiction: baggy pants, tight wrap, small hat and big shoes."

19-"The hatred of men will pass, dictators will die, and the power they have taken from the people will return to the people. As long as men die, freedom will never perish."

20-"Failure is important."

21-"I had no idea of ​​the character, but the moment I dressed, the clothes and makeup made me feel the person I was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on stage I was completely born."

22-"All my films are built around the idea of ​​getting me into trouble and giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to look like a normal little knight."

23-"Dictators free themselves but enslave the people."

24-"I remain one thing, and only one thing, and it is a clown. It places me on a plane much higher than any politician."

25-"I entered the business for money, and art grew from there. If people are disillusioned by that observation, I can not do anything, it's the truth."

26-"Movies are a fashion, audiences really want to see actors live on stage."

27-"Why should poetry have to make sense?"

28-"I am for people, I can not do anything about it."

29-"Helping a friend in need is easy but giving her time is not always timely."

30-"I guess one of the ironies of life is to do the wrong thing at the right time."

31-"We could just as well die to continue living like this."

32-"Despair is a narcotic, calm the mind toward indifference."

33-"We all want to help the other, human beings are like that, we want to live next to the happiness of the other not with their misery."

34-"The actors seek rejection, if they do not they will reject themselves."

35-"I do not think the audience knows what I want, this is the conclusion I've drawn from my career."

"Man as an individual is a genius, but men in mass form a monster without a head, a great, stupid idiot who goes wherever he is pushed."

37-"Words are cheap, the biggest thing you can say is elephant."

38-"I will rather be called a successful thief than a deposed monarch."

39-"Remember, you can always crouch and not pick up anything."

"That's why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I'm always serious about holding my cane, straightening my bowler and fixing my tie even when I've just landed on my head."

41-"This is a relentless world and one must be relentless to bear it."

42-"Only hate not loved, unloved and unnatural."

43-"Life is a beautiful and magnificent thing, even for a jellyfish."

44-"You'll never find a rainbow if you look down."

"I'm sorry but I do not want to be an emperor, that's not my business. I do not want to send or conquer anyone, I would like to help everyone if possible."

46-"In this world there is room for all and the good earth is rich and can provide for all."

47-"The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Avarice has poisoned the souls of men, has enclosed the world with hatred, has led us to misery and massacre."

48-"You will discover that life is still worthwhile, if you smile."

49-"Your naked body should belong only to those who fall in love with your naked soul."

50-"My pain may be the reason for someone's laughter, but my laughter should never be the reason for someone's pain."

51-"When I began to love myself I discovered that the anguish and emotional suffering are only warnings that I was living against my truth. Today I call this: authenticity."

52-"When I started to love myself I understood how much I could offend someone if I tried to force my desires on that person, even when I knew that the moment was not right and that the person was not prepared, and although that person was me. Today I call this respect."

53-"When I started to love myself I stopped craving a different life and I could see that everything around me invited me to grow up. Today I call it maturity."

54-"When I began to love myself I understood that in any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the right time. So I could be calm. Today I call this: self-confidence."

55-"When I started to love myself I stopped stealing my own time and stopped designing big projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things that I love to do and that make my heart celebrate, and I do it in my own way and at my own pace. Today I call this: simplicity."

56-"When I began to love myself, I freed myself from everything that hurt my health, food, people, things, situations and everything that keeps me from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy selfishness, today I call it self-love."

57-"When I began to love myself I stopped trying to always be right, and from that moment on I was less wrong. Today I discovered this as modesty."

58-"When I began to love myself, I refused to live in the past and worry about the future. Now, I only live the moment, where everything is possible. Today I live every day, day by day and I call it realization."

59-"When I began to love myself I accepted that my mind can disturb and make me sick, but as I am connected to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today he called this connection: wisdom of the heart."

60-"We no longer need to fear arguments or confrontations of any kind with ourselves or others. Even the stars collide and from their collision new world is born. Today I know that this is life!"

61-"Imagination means nothing without action."

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

63-"Like any other, I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a linear history of ancestral incitement and urgency; A story of dreams, desires and special experiences, of which I am the sum total."

64-"Life can be wonderful if you are not afraid of it. All that is needed is courage, imagination... and a little mass."

"That's the problem of the world, we all hate ourselves."

66-"You need power, only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to do everything."

"More than machinery, we need humanity; More than cunning, we need kindness and kindness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost."

68-"In the light of our ego, we are all monarchs dethroned."

69-"Men machine, with machine heads and machine hearts. You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! They have the love of humanity in their hearts. You do not hate, only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural."

70-"Soldiers, do not fight for slavery, fight for freedom!"

71-"You people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You 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's unite! Let's fight for a new world, a decent world..."

72-"Life is a work that does not accept trials; So he sings, cries, dances, laughs and lives intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends without applause."

73-"The mirror is my best friend because he never laughs when I cry."

74-"I always like to walk in the rain, so that no one can see me cry."

"I do not think the real United States is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; Personally, I like the Midwest much better, places like North Dakota and South, Minneapolis and San Pedro. There, I think, are the real Americans."

76-"I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror."

77-"Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cunning hard and cruel."

78-"In this desperate way, I started many comedies."

"Of such triviality, I think my soul was born."

80-"Think of yourself at least once in your life, otherwise you could lose the best comedy in the world."

"In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule, because I assume that ridicule is an attitude of defiance, we must laugh at the face of our helplessness against the laws of nature, or to get mad."

82-"Simplicity is not something simple."

83-"There are more facts and valid details in works of art than in books of history."

84-"My lips never know my problems, they always smile."

85-"I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius for human, but I need your smile to be happy."

"His presence was like a bouquet of roses, he looked so fresh and adorable that I felt ashamed of my scruffy appearance and my iodized shaved head."

"You must excuse her dirty face,"said the sick woman. My mother laughs and I remember her lovely words very well as she hugged me and kissed me: I still love you with all the dirt."

88-"That's all we are: amateurs. We do not live long enough to be nothing more."

89-"I do not believe or stop believing in anything. What can be imagined is such a good approximation to truth as that which can be proved by mathematics."

90-"By simple common sense I do not believe in God, in none."

91-"Worry more about your conscience than about 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."

92-"My only enemy is time."

"I asked him how strong it would be if he were living the life that one of those unfortunate families must live. How easy for him, with five meals a day under that chest with trained and perfect muscles, trying to start something with these people. Of course they are not strong, but when it comes to four years of war, when it comes to losing an arm or a leg, then they are strong. But they're not looking for a fight unless there's a reason."

"Sooner or later, instead of wearing white silk for the work, you will have to wear black to visit my grave."

95-"I tell you to bring him. He comes with a smile of triumph and does not know how to speak English, after hours of waiting we can not speak. I feel bad for him and we do the best we can. Finally, with the help of almost everyone in the hotel, he manages to ask: Do you like France? Yes, I answered. He was satisfied."

96-"People applaud you because nobody understands and applauds me because everyone understands me"(to Albert Einstein).

97-"Vanderbilt sent me a series of Hitler postcards giving a speech. His face was obscenely comic, a bad imitation of me, with his absurd mustache, messy and hairy hair, and filthy, thin mouth. He could not take Hitler seriously, every postcard showed a pose different from him: one with his hands like claws exhorting the masses; One with one arm up and the other down, like a cricket player about to roll the ball and another with his hands bent forward as lifting an imaginary weight. The greeting with the hand behind the shoulder, palm up, made me want to put a pile of dirty dishes on it. This is a nut I thought, but when Einstein and Thomas Mann were forced to leave Germany, Hitler's face was no longer comical but sinister."

98-"I am not a politician and I do not have political convictions. I am an individual and a believer of freedom, that is all the politics I have."

99-"Procreation is the main occupation of nature, and every man, whether young or old, when he meets a woman, measures the potential of sex between them."

"All I need is an opportunity,"I said confidently. He smiled and said: seventeen is very young and you look even younger, I shrugged and said: that's a matter of makeup, Karno laughed. That shrug, I found out later, gave me the job."

"I see you so little these days, your presence is as rare as that of a discarded lover."

"And I'll have another chance. I'm going to have a weekend with him at his Easton home, a weekend with Wells at home, with just his family. That alone is worth the entire trip from Los Angeles to Europe."

103-"If people know how it is done, all the magic disappears."

104-"Although we rarely see them, it is comforting to think of them as the pleasure of knowing that there is a berth somewhere, if we occasionally wish to sail to the port."

105-"Time is the best author, always finds the perfect end."

106-"Patriotism is a feeling too deep for it to be represented in the pose of a photograph."

"There is something as inevitable as death, and it is life."

108-"Think of the power of the universe, spinning the earth, making the trees grow; That is the same power within you, if only you had the courage and the will to use it."

109-"As for politics, I am an anarchist. I hate governments, rules and shackles; I can not tolerate caged animals, people should be free,"

110-"Brunettes are problematic, they are worse than the Jews."

111-"Smile, though your heart hurts; Smile, even if you are breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you will overcome it if you smile through your pain and misfortune. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you will see the sun shining for you."

112-"Life laughs at you when you are unhappy, life smiles at you when you are happy, but life greets you when you make others happy."

113-"I do not need interesting camera angles, I'm interesting."

114-"What a sad business it is to be funny!"

115-"There is greatness in all."

"Tomorrow the birds will sing. Be brave, face life."

117-"The ability to think, as well as the violin or the piano, requires daily practice."

118-"Do not judge a man by how he treats his equals but by how he treats those inferior to him."

"His atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrible cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit."

"Beauty is the omnipresence of death and beauty, a smiling sadness that we can perceive in the nature of all things, a mystical communion with what the poet feels."

121-"My character of the tramp, millions of workers represented in a figure."

122-"I like friends as much as I like music, when I'm in the mood."

123-"The best thing in life is to go forward with all your plans and dreams, face life and live each day with passion, lose and still maintain faith and win gratitude."

124-"The world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want."

125-"Life is too short to be insignificant."

126-"Let us strive for a world of reason, a world where science and progress are directed towards the happiness of all men."

127-"Let us strive to liberate the world, to disappear national barriers, to disappear greed, hatred and intolerance."

"The essential basis of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."

"Shoot them all, I do not want any of my workers unsatisfied."


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