Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

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.

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.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

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.

I am for people. I can't help it.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant.

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

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

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'.

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

Nature has endowed the north of California with resources that will endure and flourish when Hollywood has disappeared into the prehistoric tar-pits of Wilshire Boulevard.

I was a worshipper of the foolhardy and the melodramatic, a dreamer and a moper, raging at life and loving it, a mind in a chrysalis yet erupting with sudden bursts of maturity.

Procreation is nature's principal occupation, and every man, whether he be young or old, when meeting every woman measures the potentiality of sex between them.