Charlie Chaplin Short Quotes

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

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

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What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

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Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
On the universality of silent films

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Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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

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

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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

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Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you're looking down.

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I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

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Schultz: You must speak.
Jewish Barber: I can't.
Schultz: It's our only hope.

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I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

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Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.

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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.

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

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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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As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

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This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

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I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table... I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

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In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat.... Everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

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I hate the talkies and will not produce talking films.... I cannot conceive of my films as other than silent. My shadow appears on the screen as in a dream, and dreams do not speak.

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Hynkel, the dictator, ruled the nation with an iron fist. Under the new emblem of the double cross, liberty was banished, free speech was suppressed and only the voice of Hynkel was heard.

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