Charles Chaplin Quotes About Life, Humor, and Resilience
Charles Chaplin quotes about life, humor, love, and resilience that continue to inspire and touch hearts around the world.
“We think too much and feel too little. More than machines, we need humanity. More than intelligence, affection and gentleness. Without these virtues, life will be full of violence and everything will be lost.”
“If I had believed in my game of telling the truth, I would have heard the truths that I insist on telling jokingly. I have often spoken like a clown, but I have never doubted the sincerity of the smiling audience.”
“Beauty is the only precious thing in life. It is difficult to find it, But those who succeed, discover everything.”
“In a film, what matters is not reality, but what the imagination can extract from it.”
“I recognize that time and circumstances have favored me. The world has filled itself with affection, I have inspired love and also hate. Life has given me the best and a little of the worst.”
“I am not a politician. I am primarily an individualist. I believe in freedom, and that is what my politics are all about.”
“Comedy, if performed with life, can be as great as a Greek tragedy.”
“Know the man. This is the basis of all success.”
“I was and am just a clown. This puts me in a category far above any politician.”
“One day I will play Jesus. I was made for the role. I look like Him, I am Jewish and a comedian, which allows me to see the character objectively.”
“I am a poet. A spiritual anarchist. I am not a patriot. I am amoral, I am an artist.”
“To do comedy, all I need is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
“If I had known the horrors that were happening in the concentration camps, I would not have made The Great Dictator.”
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to find myself accustomed to luxury.”
“May I be a comedian. But a comedian who thinks.”
“The purpose of cinema is to transport us to the realm of beauty.”
“I am not Jewish. I do not have that honor.”
“Beauty is the only precious thing in life. It is difficult to find, but those who do, discover everything.”
“I am not a pamphleteer: I write what I consider vital, comic and dramatic. If I achieve this in the film, then I consider it good.”
“Art is an additional emotion juxtaposed with a refined technique.”
“In fact, the character of Charlie is a terrible responsibility for me.”
“I was very honored, but I must admit that I started making films for the money. Art came later, naturally. I can’t help it if people are disappointed by this statement. It is the pure truth.”
“Those who are distant always make a greater impression on us.”
“I studied the man, because if I didn’t, I wouldn’t be able to achieve anything in my profession.”
“In a film, what matters is not reality, but what the imagination can extract from it.”
“I love tragedy because it is beautiful. The only comedy worth seeing is that which contains beauty.”
“One of the things I always try to avoid is exaggerating or insisting too much on a particular point. When you exaggerate the comedy, the scene stops producing laughter and adds nothing to the film.”
“Many people ask me where I got my inspiration to create my character. In fact, Charlie appears to be the synthesis of many English people I saw in London when I was young: short, with little black mustaches, tight clothes, and always carrying a bamboo cane. The idea of the cane was the happiest of all, because it was what characterized the character and made her known most quickly. I developed its use to the point of making her comical in and of herself – for example when she got tangled up in someone’s foot or pulled someone by the shoulder. Many of these scenes ended up becoming, unexpectedly, very funny.”
” One of the pleasures I feel when producing a film is to see that often an unexpected scene _ or even a wrong one _ ends up working out well.”
” Every time I watch one of my films, when it is first shown to the public, I pay more attention to people’s reactions than to the film itself _ to the situations that make people laugh and those that don’t.”
” I don’t believe that the art of acting can be taught. I’ve seen intelligent people fail and stupid people do very well. What the
” With the use of words there is no longer room for imagination.”
” I don’t believe in technique, in the camera’s movement around the nostrils and ears of the stars. I believe in mime. I believe in style.”
” A person can have a sad childhood and still be very happy in adulthood. In the same way, you can be born with a silver spoon in your mouth and feel trapped for the rest of your life.”
“During my childhood, hunger and fear of tomorrow were two constants in my existence. No matter how rich I may become, I will never be able to free myself from this fear. I feel like a man haunted by a ghost – the ghost of poverty.”
“Without my mother, I don’t think I would have done well in pantomime. She had the most remarkable mimicry I have ever seen. Sometimes she would stand for hours at the window looking at the street and reproducing with her hands, her eyes and the expression on her face everything that was happening
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