Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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

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

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

In the end, everything is a gag.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

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 think too much and feel too little.

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

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 am for people. I can't help it.

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

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!