Most people see Charlie Chaplin as an amazing unique actor and director but it should be known that he was also a very intelligent man and that his movies have extremely intelligent meanings besides the obvious ones. Here are some quotes by Charlie Chaplin the man. Enjoy!
I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.
I am for people. I can't help it.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life - doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
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.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
That´s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
That´s what all we are. Amateurs. We don´t live long enough to be anything else.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.
I am for people. I can't help it.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life - doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
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.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
That´s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
That´s what all we are. Amateurs. We don´t live long enough to be anything else.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.