Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

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

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.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy in long-shot.

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

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.

To help a friend in need is easy but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Remember you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.

To truly laugh you must be able to take your pain and play with it!

Laughter is the tonic the relief the surcease for pain.

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.

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.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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