Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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

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.

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

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

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

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

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

I like friends as I like music – when I am in the mood.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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

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 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.

In the end, everything is a gag.

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.