Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“I tell them to bring him in. He comes in smiling in triumph. And he can't speak English. After his hours of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share
I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Desire is the theme of life. The meaning of anything… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share
