Charlie Chaplin Quotes - Page 5

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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

I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. 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. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.

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.

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.

Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

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

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Nothing is more important than the moving image; except for my cup of coffee in the morning.

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

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!

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

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.

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.