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

- Charlie Chaplin

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.

- Charlie Chaplin

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.

- Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

- Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

- Charlie Chaplin

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.

- Charlie Chaplin

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

- Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

- Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

- Charlie Chaplin

Why should poetry have to make sense?

- Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

- Charlie Chaplin

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.

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Charlie Chaplin

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.

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Charlie Chaplin