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Actors, Acting
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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
-Charlie Chaplin
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America
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I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
-Charlie Chaplin
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Beauty
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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
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Comedy
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
-Charlie Chaplin
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Confidence
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You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
-Charlie Chaplin, In Reader's Digest, 1 Jan 1982
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Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
-Charlie Chaplin
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-Charlie Chaplin
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Future, The
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
-Charlie Chaplin
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Humor
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In the end, everything is a gag.
-Charlie Chaplin
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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
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Laughter
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
-Charlie Chaplin
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Patience
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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
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Public
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I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
-Charlie Chaplin
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Wealth
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
-Charlie Chaplin
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Books by and about Charlie Chaplin