Charlie Chaplin was an English actor, comedian and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent era of film. He is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry, and his works are still enjoyed by audiences around the world. He is most famous for his character The Little Tramp, a character he created and often portrayed in his films. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Charlie Chaplin on life, laughter, smile.
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Look up to the sky. You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
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. — Charlie Chaplin
I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know that, They always smile.
In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. — Charlie Chaplin
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up. — Charlie Chaplin
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world. — Charlie Chaplin
Nothing is permanent is this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Life salutes u when u make others happy — Charlie Chaplin
Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life. — Charlie Chaplin
You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. — Charlie Chaplin
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. — Charlie Chaplin
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Charlie Chaplin Quotes About Smile
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. — Charlie Chaplin
Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your pain and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow,
You'll see the sun come shining through for you. — Charlie Chaplin
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. — Charlie Chaplin
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laughter, but my laughter must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
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. — Charlie Chaplin
my lips never know my problem they just always smile — Charlie Chaplin
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Charlie Chaplin Quotes About Love
As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself. — Charlie Chaplin
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. — Charlie Chaplin
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. — Charlie Chaplin
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY". — Charlie Chaplin
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". — Charlie Chaplin
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done. — Charlie Chaplin
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express. — Charlie Chaplin
As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'. — Charlie Chaplin
Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you. — Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin Quotes About Comedy
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. — Charlie Chaplin
In this desperate way, I started many a comedy. — Charlie Chaplin
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 — Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin Quotes About People
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
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
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. — Charlie Chaplin
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. — Charlie Chaplin
I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ. — Charlie Chaplin
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her. — Charlie Chaplin
I am for people. I can't help it. — Charlie Chaplin
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it. — Charlie Chaplin
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone — Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin Quotes About Places
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. — Charlie Chaplin
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 — Charlie Chaplin
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. — Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin Quotes About Dictators
Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own. — Charlie Chaplin
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. — Charlie Chaplin
As long as men die, liberty will never parish. — Charlie Chaplin
More than machinery, we need humanity. — Charlie Chaplin
To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. — Charlie Chaplin
Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis. — Charlie Chaplin
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. — Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin Famous Quotes And Sayings
A day without laughter is a day wasted. — Charlie Chaplin
The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant. — Charlie Chaplin
You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. — Charlie Chaplin
Simplicity is not a simple thing. — Charlie Chaplin
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. — Charlie Chaplin
In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude. — Charlie Chaplin
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
Imagination means nothing without doing. — Charlie Chaplin
That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else. — Charlie Chaplin
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. — Charlie Chaplin
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. — Charlie Chaplin
Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. — Charlie Chaplin
I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting. — Charlie Chaplin
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence. — Charlie Chaplin
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
I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood. — Charlie Chaplin
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. — Charlie Chaplin
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. — Charlie Chaplin
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
Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice — Charlie Chaplin
They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you. — Charlie Chaplin
In the end, everything is a gag. — Charlie Chaplin
Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending. — Charlie Chaplin
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none. — Charlie Chaplin
I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane. — Charlie Chaplin
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit. — Charlie Chaplin
Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied. — Charlie Chaplin
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane. — Charlie Chaplin
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first. — Charlie Chaplin
The heart and the mind, what an enigma. — Charlie Chaplin
I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me. — Charlie Chaplin
Why should poetry have to make sense? — Charlie Chaplin
What a sad business is being funny! — Charlie Chaplin
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
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror — Charlie Chaplin
When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed. — Charlie Chaplin
I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins. — Charlie Chaplin
Why not? After all, it belongs to him. — Charlie Chaplin
Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality. — Charlie Chaplin
Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. — Charlie Chaplin
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. — Charlie Chaplin
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
We might as well die as to go on living like this. — Charlie Chaplin
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. — Charlie Chaplin
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves. — Charlie Chaplin
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. — Charlie Chaplin
Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty. — Charlie Chaplin
If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window. — Charlie Chaplin
From such trivia, I believe my soul was born. — Charlie Chaplin
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior. — Charlie Chaplin
This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat. — Charlie Chaplin
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! — Charlie Chaplin
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. — Charlie Chaplin
I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist? — Charlie Chaplin
Life Lessons by Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin taught us that it is possible to overcome adversity and find success with hard work and determination.
He also showed us the importance of staying true to yourself and your values, no matter what life throws at you.
Finally, he demonstrated the power of humor and laughter to bring joy and hope in difficult times.
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