Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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Charlie Chaplin is the greatest director of the screen. He's a pioneer. How he knows women!—oh, how he knows women! I do not cry easily when seeing a picture, but after seeing Charlie's A Woman of Paris I was all choked up—I wanted to go out in the garden and have it out by myself.

I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man.

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.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

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

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

Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down.

I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.

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

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.

Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

The inmates have taken over the asylum!

Schultz: You must speak.
Jewish barber: I can't.
Schultz: It's our only hope.