Charlie Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 in London, England and spent a large part of his life in Switzerland, and died on Christmas Day 1977. Charlie Chaplin was an English comedian, film producer, and musician, who was famous in the silent era. The silent era was when there was no sound in films, only they could be seen. He used to be a very big artist in the 20th century. Charlie Chaplin played the tramp, for which he was world-famous, and was one of many important actors in the history of the film industry. Charlie Chaplin’s career spanned 75 years from his childhood until a year before his death, and he was one of the most flattering and controversial. Chaplin started his career in childhood. Here are the best Charlie Chaplin Quotes on Love, Life, and laughter.
Charlie Chaplin Quotes
- “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
- “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
- “Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.”
- “My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”
“You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”
- “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”
- “I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”
- Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination … and a little dough.
- Imagination means nothing without doing.
- Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.
- You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.
- Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.
- Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
- A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
- I am a citizen of the world.
- Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
- We think too much and feel too little.
- Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles
- 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. The future of the modern world demands modern thinking. Therefore, let us use the full force of our intelligence instead of obsolete homicidal methods in settling our international differences.
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
- If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s a wonderful guidance.
- The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
- All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
- I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life – doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
- The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.What a sad business, being funny
- We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature — or go insane.
- Time is the great author. Always writes the perfect ending.
- What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning!
- Simplicity of approach is always best.
- One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.
- We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.
- I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.
- Whomever lives, gambles with life.
- Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.
- The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.
- How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.
- My happiest days are those in which I do good work.
- Making fun is serious business.
- Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
- Humor is kindly. Wit is caustic.
- Men who think deeply say little in ordinary conversations.
- That which is apparent ends. That which is subtle is never-ending.
- Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.
- I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane
- Faith is a precursor of all our ideas.
- In the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.
- Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.
- Let’s call them years of a friendly misalliance.
- Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.
- Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
- A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
- I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty.
- The world cannot be wrong if in this world there’s you.
- There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
- I am an individual and a believer in liberty.
- A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.
- I always try to do the unexpected in a novel way.
- Restraint is a great word, not only for actors but for everybody to remember.
- I have studied human nature, because without a knowledge of it I could not do my work.
- Life is an expression of want.
- To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
- The object of art is to intensify feeling, color or sound.
- I did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain.
Meeting people formally is like viewing a house without going inside
- If a few slapstick comedies could arouse such excitement, was there not something bogus about all celebrity?
- Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.
- Our existence is a half-dream. it is difficult to know where the dream ends and reality begins.
- Our tragedies are only as big as we make them.
- People’s affection hurts me but it’s a beautiful pain.
- It is always the unexpected that happens, both in moving pictures and in real life.
- The pursuit of happiness can only be had from within ourselves and the interest of others.
- I have that priceless quality of being curious about life and things which keeps up my enthusiasm.
- Because of humour we are less overwhelmed by the vicissitudes of life.
- Fortune and ill-fortune drift upon one haphazardly as clouds.
- Whether sage or fool, we must all struggle with life.
- There is a fraternity of those who passionately want to know.
- Cold, hunger and the shame of poverty are more likely to affect one’s psychology.
- If a gag interfered with the logic of events, no matter how funny it was I would not use it.
- All children in some form or another have genius; the trick is to bring it out in them.
- I am an artist, not a politician.
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- To live in order to reason or to reason in order to live; there is the question.
- Beauty is the object or the consciousness which amplifies the feeling of universality in man.
- The world cannot be wrong if in this world there’s you.
- You can do anything if you don’t have a vulgar mind.
- Humor is the ability to discern in a kindly way the folly in what is considered normal, sublime behavior, and to discern the discrepancy in what appears as a truth.
- Too much kindness and respect are given to the unseen and not enough to humanity. It seems that in our nature we loathe each other and bestow our respect and love on the abstract.
- 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.
- “As I see it, the purpose of story telling is to express the beauty of life, condensing its high spots, for purposes of entertainment. For after all, it is only beauty we seek in life, whether it be through laughter or tears. And beauty lies in everything, both good and evil, though only the discriminating, such as the artist and the poet, finds it in both.
- 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. The future of the modern world demands modern thinking. Therefore, let us use the full force of our intelligence instead of obsolete homicidal methods in settling our international differences.
- 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.
- The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.
- All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil – of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.
- Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the look-out for incidents that may excite the imagination – music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.
- Beauty is the spirit of all things, an exaltation, a psalm of life and death, of good and evil, of vileness and purity, of joy and pain, of hate and love—all of it incarnate in the object we see or hear. It is an empathy, a feeling into art or nature that we observe—all of it a singing harmony to our senses.
- I hope that the entertainment I give has some lasting effect on people. I hope they see the beauty that I myself am seeking. I am trying to express a beauty that embraces not only physical characteristics and scenes, but the true fundamental emotions of humanity. Beauty. Beauty is what I am after.
- 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.
