A day without laughter is a day wasted.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

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.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

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.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

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.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

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

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.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

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.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

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.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

The glamour of it all! New York! America!
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

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.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

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.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

We think too much and feel too little.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

Why should poetry have to make sense?
- Charlie Chaplin Quote

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
- Charlie Chaplin Quote