Charlie Chaplin

     Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English actor, comedian, and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent era.

Charlie Chaplin's Quotes

• You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.
• I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
• A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
• We think too much and feel too little.
• Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
• To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
• You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
• What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
• My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
• I will not join any club who will take me as a member.
• I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It puts me on a far higher place than any politician.
• The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
• Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
• I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
• 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.
• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
• Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.
• Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
• This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
• Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
• Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
• Humor is the sublime wisdom of pity and tolerance in which man recognizes the utter futility of his own enterprise and importance.
• Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.
• I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
• Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine.
• Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
• In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.
• 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.
• Imagination means nothing without doing.
• In the end, everything is a gag.