70 Charlie Chaplin Quotes and Sayings
Looking for Inspirational quotes by Charlie Chaplin? Here are famous Charlie Chaplin Quotes and Sayings about life, humour, and happiness.
Charlie Chaplin Quotes
- “The mirror is my best friend, because when I cry it never laughs.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I have many problems in my life. But my lips don’t know that. They always smile.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “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.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.” – Charlie Chaplin
Quotes by Charlie Chaplin
- “I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “It isn’t the ups and downs that make life difficult; it’s the jerks.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “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.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “In the end, everything is a gag.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.” – Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin Inspiring Short Quotes
- “It’s easy to judge. It’s not so easy to understand.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I like friends as I like music; when I am in the mood.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I am for people. I can’t help it.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing! Even to a jellyfish!” – Charlie Chaplin
Inspirational Charlie Chaplin Quotes
- “That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “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.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Imagination means nothing without doing.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “That is all there is in life — beauty. You find that and you have found everything.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination … and a little dough.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Humor is kindly. Wit is caustic.” – Charlie Chaplin
Best Charlie Chaplin Quotes
- “Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “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.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Why should poetry have to make sense?” – Charlie Chaplin
- “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.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no Applause.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.” – Charlie Chaplin
Famous Charlie Chaplin Quotes
- “Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “We think too much and feel too little.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.” – Charlie Chaplin
Popular Charlie Chaplin Quotes
- “To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Brunettes are troublemakers. They’re worse than the Jews.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.” – Charlie Chaplin