Charlie Chaplin quotes
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“Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!”
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“...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in; machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity, more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities life will be violent and all will be lost.”
-- Charlie ChaplinSource : "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.
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“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
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“As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.”
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“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”
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“Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough”
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“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
-- Charlie ChaplinSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”
-- Charlie ChaplinSource : "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.
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“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”
-- Charlie ChaplinSource : "Fictional character: Hannah". "The Great Dictator", 1940.
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“My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.”
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“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.”
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“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone”
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“As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.”
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“You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.”
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“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”
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“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”
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“Imagination means nothing without doing.”
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“The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.”
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“Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.”
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“Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.”
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“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”
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“Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.”
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“The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.”
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“It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.”
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“They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.”
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“By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.”
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“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".”
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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
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“Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.”
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“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.”
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“my lips never know my problem they just always smile”
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“That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.”
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“Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.”
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“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.”
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“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”
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“To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.”
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“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.”
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“Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.”
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“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
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“What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.”
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“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”
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“The glamour of it all! New York! America!”
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“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.”
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“That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.”
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“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”
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“Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for LIBERTY! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.”
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“The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.”
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“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
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“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
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“Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you'll see the sun come shining through for you.”
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“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
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“I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.”
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“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.”
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“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”
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“My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.”
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“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”
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“That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”
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“More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness”
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“You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure..”
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“I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don`t know that. They always smile”
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“Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.”
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“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.”
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“I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.”
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“In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.”
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“I will not join any club who will take me as a member.”
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“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”
-- Charlie ChaplinSource : Song: Smile
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“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.”
-- Charlie ChaplinSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”
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