Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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

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

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

It isn’t the ups and downs that make life difficult; it’s the jerks.

You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

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

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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.

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

You’ll never find rainbows, If you’re looking down…

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

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

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.