Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

The silent picture [...] is a universal means of expression. Talking pictures necessarily have a limited field, they are held down to the particular tongues of particular races..(..) There is a constant demand for a medium that is universal in its utility.

Pantomime has always been the universal means of communication. It existed as the universal tool long before language was born. Pantomime serves well where languages are in the conflict of a common ignorance.

America has changed [...] The gigantic scale of industrial institutions, of press, television, and commercial advertising has completely divorced me from the American way of life. I want the other side of the coin, a simpler personal sense of living.

Mother illuminated to me the kindliest light this world has ever known, which has endowed literature and the theatre with their greatest and richest themes: love, pity and humanity.

Action is more generally understood than words.

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

The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly!

Education is the path to revelation. Teach the alphabet and you sow the seeds of rebellion. The free thinker travels light along the road to truth.

How awful the thought of oneness-the yoga idea. One merging into all and all merging into one. Just think of merging into Herbert Hoover.

If a few slapstick comedies could arouse such excitement, was there not something bogus about all celebrity?

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Let us fight for a new world.

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

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

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

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

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

[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.

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

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.