Charlie Chaplin

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

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

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Smile, though your heart is aching_x000D_ Smile, even though it's breaking_x000D_ When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by _x000D_ If you smile through your pain and sorrow_x000D_ Smile and maybe tomorrow, _x000D_ You'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

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

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

In the end, everything is a gag.

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

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

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

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.