Charlie Chaplin Quotes - Page 5

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• Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Wicked World, Unnatural

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beauty, Sadness, Poet

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• What a sad business is being funny!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sadness, Being Funny

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• What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Stars, Axes

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• My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Character, Figures, Tramps

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• I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sorry, Want, Dictator

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. 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. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. 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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Hate, Men

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Wicked World, Trouble, Despise

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• To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Greed, Progress

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Stars, Chaos, Born

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• In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Discovery, Philadelphia, Atheism

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• Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Silence, Sound

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• Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Positive Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Leaving, Wish, Sparks

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Religious, Believe, Dogmatic

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Special, Architecture

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• By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Atheist, Believe, Simple

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• Nothing is more important than the moving image;
  except for my cup of coffee in the morning.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Morning, Coffee, Moving

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Aquariums, Theatre, Acting

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• I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Sight, Blood

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Jesus, People, World

  Quoted in Lita Grey Chaplin, My Life with Chaplin: An Intimate Memoir (1966)

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• One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hero, Murder, Villain

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", 1947.

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• Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Benefits, Politics, Dictator

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• So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Life, Sea, Want

  Song: Oh For The Life Of A Sardine

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