Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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Charlie Chaplin

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 16, 1889

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Charlie Chaplin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

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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.

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A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

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I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

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We think too much and feel too little.

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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

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

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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.

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Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

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