Charlie Chaplin Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Charlie Chaplin:
The glamour of it all! New York! America!
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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.
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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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.
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I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
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This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
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I am for people. I can't help it.
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Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
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I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
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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.
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Why should poetry have to make sense?
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A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
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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.
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I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
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I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
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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.
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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
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We think too much and feel too little.
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We might as well die as to go on living like this.
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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
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To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
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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.
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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In the end, everything is a gag.
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
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Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
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Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
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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.
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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
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What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
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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.
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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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.
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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
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Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
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