Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

Who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul.

My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.

All I need is the opportunity,' I said confidently. He smiled. 'Seventeen's very young, and you look even younger.' I shrugged off-handedly. 'That's a question of make-up.' Karno laughed. That shrug, he told Sydney later, got me the job.

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.

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.

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.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

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

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

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

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'.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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