Charlie Chaplin: Interviews
A source page for quotes linked to Charlie Chaplin.
“The mirror is my best friend, because when I cry it doesn't laugh.”
“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity.”
“We are all amateurs. We don't have enough time to be anything else.”
“I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know that". They just keep smiling.”
“I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.”
“I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.”
“The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!”
“Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice”
“Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.”
“I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.”
“Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.”
“If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.”
“We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.”
“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.”
“Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.”
“I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?”
“Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.”
“3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.”
“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”
“That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”