Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

Making fun is serious business.

I hope that the entertainment I give has some lasting effect on people. I hope they see the beauty that I myself am seeking. I am trying to express a beauty that embraces not only physical characteristics and scenes, but the true fundamental emotions of humanity. Beauty. Beauty is what I am after.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.

The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.

All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil - of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.

Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.

Whomever lives, gambles with life.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Time is the great author. Always writes the perfect ending.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane.

What a sad business, being funny.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world, that we shall abolish wars and settle all international differences at the conference table, that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs before they abolish us. The future of the modern world demands modern thinking. Therefore, let us use the full force of our intelligence instead of obsolete homicidal methods in settling our international differences.