Top 160 Charlie Chaplin Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.”

— Charlie Chaplin

52. “Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for LIBERTY! You, the people have the power – the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

54. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

55. “I hate the sight of blood, but it’s in my veins.”

— Charlie Chaplin

56. “Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

58. “I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.”

— Charlie Chaplin

59. “My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.”

— Charlie Chaplin

60. “That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”

— Charlie Chaplin

61. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

62. “I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”

— Charlie Chaplin

63. “Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”

— Charlie Chaplin

64. “Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!”

— Charlie Chaplin

65. “I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.”

— Charlie Chaplin

66. “The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.”

— Charlie Chaplin

67. “I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.”

— Charlie Chaplin

68. “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

69. “I don’t need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.”

— Charlie Chaplin

70. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

71. “What a sad business is being funny!”

— Charlie Chaplin

72. “Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant.”

— Charlie Chaplin

73. “Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”

— Charlie Chaplin

74. “Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man’s ethical behavior.”

— Charlie Chaplin

75. “Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.”

— Charlie Chaplin

76. “There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.”

— Charlie Chaplin

77. “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

78. “In the end, everything is a gag.”

— Charlie Chaplin

79. “You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.”

— Charlie Chaplin

80. “Why should poetry have to make sense?”

— Charlie Chaplin

81. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

82. “As long as men die, liberty will never parish.”

— Charlie Chaplin

83. “By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.”

— Charlie Chaplin

84. “Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

86. “I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.”

— Charlie Chaplin

87. “If anybody else says it’s like old times, I’ll jump out the window.”

— Charlie Chaplin

88. “I am for people. I can’t help it.”

— Charlie Chaplin

89. “In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.”

— Charlie Chaplin

90. “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

91. “Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.”

— Charlie Chaplin

92. “I don’t want to create a revolution – I just want to create a few more films.”

— Charlie Chaplin

93. “I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.”

— Charlie Chaplin

94. “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, but we have lost the way.”

— Charlie Chaplin

95. “From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.”

— Charlie Chaplin

96. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

98. “Brunettes are troublemakers. They’re worse than the Jews.”

— Charlie Chaplin

99. “I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin