Top 160 Charlie Chaplin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.”

— Charlie Chaplin

102. “In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

104. “We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.”

— Charlie Chaplin

105. “Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice.”

— Charlie Chaplin

106. “Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet’s ghost might have walked.”

— Charlie Chaplin

107. “Have them all shot. I don’t want any of my workers dissatisfied.”

— Charlie Chaplin

108. “Nothing is forever in this world, not even our problems.”

— Charlie Chaplin

109. “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”

— Charlie Chaplin

110. “Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”

— Charlie Chaplin

111. “Why not? After all, it belongs to him.”

— Charlie Chaplin

112. “That’s what all we are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.”

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

— Charlie Chaplin

114. “Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.”

— Charlie Chaplin

115. “An den Scheidewegen des Lebens stehen keine Wegweiser.”

— Charlie Chaplin

116. “The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.”

— Charlie Chaplin

117. “More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.”

— Charlie Chaplin

118. “The glamour of it all! New York! America!”

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

— Charlie Chaplin

120. “I don’t think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans.”

— Charlie Chaplin

121. “Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.”

— Charlie Chaplin

122. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

124. “All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

126. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

129. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

130. “I will not join any club who will take me as a member.”

— Charlie Chaplin

131. “Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.”

— Charlie Chaplin

132. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

134. “I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.”

— Charlie Chaplin

135. “I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.”

— Charlie Chaplin

136. “They will always criticize you, speak badly of you, it’ll be hard to meet someone who will like you as you are, so live, do what your hear tells you to do... Life is like a play that does not allow testing. So sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely every day of your life, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.”

— Charlie Chaplin

137. “I’m an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.”

— Charlie Chaplin

138. “My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.”

— Charlie Chaplin

139. “In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.”

— Charlie Chaplin

140. “You have the love of humanity in your hearts. In the seventeenth chapter of saint Luke it is written the kingdom of god is in men. Not in one man nor a group of men but in all men. In you.”

— Charlie Chaplin

141. “Let us fight to free the world.”

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142. “I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.”

— Charlie Chaplin

143. “The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.”

— Charlie Chaplin

144. “They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.”

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

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Charlie Chaplin

147. “I can’t understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?”

— Charlie Chaplin

148. “If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s a wonderful guidance.”

— Charlie Chaplin

149. “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.”

— Charlie Chaplin

150. “Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.”

— Charlie Chaplin