Charlie Chaplin quotes

Look up to the sky. You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.

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• inspirational

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

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• laughter

I have many problems in my life but my lips don't know that ,they always smiles.

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• smile

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

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• laughter

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

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• future

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

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• comedy

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

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• wealth

Mirror is my best friend, because when I cry it never laughs.

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• mirror

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

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• jews

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

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• inspirational

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

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• despair

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

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• america

In the end, everything is a gag.

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• humor

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

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• beauty

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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• another

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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• dictators

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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• dictators

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

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• film

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

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• romantic

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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• baggy

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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• art

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

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• actors

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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• public

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

• film

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.

• appear

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.

• humor

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles

• world

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.

• born

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.

• clown

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.

• cane

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.

• patience

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

• confidence