Thoughts by Charlie Chaplin Quotes in English Quotations

Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

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.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”

When I’m not making pictures, I’m thinking of them, and when I’m not thinking of them, I’m dreaming of them.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans.

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.

Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.

A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I am a citizen of the world.

There is a fraternity of those who passionately want to know.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

You need Power,
only when you want
to do something harmful
otherwise
Love is enough to get everything done.

The world cannot be wrong if in this world there's you.

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Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

We think too much and feel too little.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.

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

A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.

If a gag interfered with the logic of events, no matter how funny it was I would not use it.

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

Whether sage or fool, we must all struggle with life.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance. *

I neither believe nor disbelieve anything.

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

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

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

Because of humour we are less overwhelmed by the vicissitudes of life.

Men who think deeply say little in ordinary conversations.

Let's call them years of a friendly misalliance.

Tomorrow the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.

All children in some form or another have genius; the trick is to bring it out in them.

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

What a sad business, being funny

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

A day without laughing is a day wasted

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Action is more generally understood than words.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning!

In the end, everything is a gag.

I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men!

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

My tramp is made up of mimicry.

It is not reality that matters in a film but what the imagination can make of it.

That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

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

Whomever lives, gambles with life.

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.

My only enemy is time.

If only the old and young could be the same age.

Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.

Comedy must be true to life.

Acting essentially requires feeling.

I am an emotional cuss.

If I talked I would become like any other comedian.

How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.

The roses you lifted to your lips ... lucky roses!

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

I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Let us fight for a new world.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

To live in order to reason or to reason in order to live; there is the question.

I’m unconscious while I’m acting. I live the role and am not myself.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

That which is apparent ends. That which is subtle is never-ending.

The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.

I am an artist, not a politician.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

That is all there is in life - beauty. You find that and you have found everything.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Humor is kindly. Wit is caustic.

Our tragedies are only as big as we make them.

To work is to live - and I love to live.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Charlie Chaplin Quotes in English

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

My lips never know my problem they just always smile.

Your Pain May Give
Laugh To Somebody
But
Your Laugh Shouldn't
Give Pain To Anybody.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.

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

More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness.

Beauty is the object or the consciousness which amplifies the feeling of universality in man.

Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.

You will find that life's still worthwhile.. if you just smile!

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination ... and a little dough.

- Life Thought by Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Faith is a precursor of all our ideas.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

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Let's call them years of a friendly misalliance.

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Simplicity is not a simple thing.

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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

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I neither believe nor disbelieve anything.

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You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

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Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

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In the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.

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A day without laughing is a day wasted.

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Faith is a precursor of all our ideas.

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In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

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Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

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I am what I am: an individual, unique and different.

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Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

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From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

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To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

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You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Cold, hunger and the shame of poverty are more likely to affect one's psychology.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.

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

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

You can do anything if you don't have a vulgar mind.

Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

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.

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.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

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

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

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.

One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one's fellow man.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

I could kill laughs more quickly by overdoing something than by any other method.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

I have that priceless quality of being curious about life and things which keeps up my enthusiasm.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

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.

The transition from slapstick to sentiment was a matter of feeling and discretion in arranging sequences.

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

I'm an old weed. The more I'm cut down, the more I spring up again.

The pursuit of happiness can only be had from within ourselves and the interest of others.

In all truth there is the seed of falsehood.

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

That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.

The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.

It’s depleting, don’t you know, this business of being funny all the time! I need a rest.

I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. That which can be imagined is as much an approximation to truth as that which can be proved by mathematics.

It is always the unexpected that happens, both in moving pictures and in real life.

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no Applause.

we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.

It is pure instinct with me — dramatic instinct.

It is incongruous that in this atomic age of speed we are shut in and shut out by passports.

Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination .. and a little dough.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

That's all any of us are - amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

I am an artist. I am interested in life.

Making fun is serious business.

People's affection hurts me but it's a beautiful pain.

Our existence is a half-dream ... it is difficult to know where the dream ends and reality begins.

Knowledge inspires courage. I’m not sceptical but I’d sooner know than believe.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.