Charlie Chaplin

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

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

More than machinery, we need humanity.

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

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.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

There is greatness in everyone.

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.

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.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

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.

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.