Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

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

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.

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

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.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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

One either rises to an occasion or succumbs to it.

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

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

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

My tramp is made up of mimicry.

My costume helps me to express my conception of the average man, of almost any man, of myself. The derby, too small, is a striving for dignity. The mustache is vanity. The tightly buttoned coat and the stick and his whole manner are a gesture toward gallantry and dash and 'front.' He is chasing folly, and he knows it. He is trying to meet the world bravely, to put up a bluff, and he knows that, too. He knows it so well that he can laugh at himself and pity himself a little.

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

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

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

The accumulating complexities of modern life, the kinetic invasion of the twentieth century finds the individual hemmed in by gigantic institutions that threaten from all sides, politically, scientifically and economically. We are becoming the victims of soul-conditioning, of sanctions and permits.

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

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.

Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole. It is the merging force binding every element in existence into a perfect whole.