Charlie Chaplin Inspirational Quotes
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
In the end, everything is a gag.
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.
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
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’.
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 for people. I can’t help 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.
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.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin
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 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.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
The actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Why should poetry have to make sense?
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
We think too much and feel too little.
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 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.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin On Life
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination … and a little dough.
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
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 could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
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.
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 might as well die as to go on living like this.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
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.
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.
The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature — or go insane.
Simplicity of approach is always best.
Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.
How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.
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.
The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.
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.
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.
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 the image to an idea.