Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

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

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

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.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.