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Charlie Chaplin Quotes



Quotes by Charlie Chaplin - (15 quotes)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Audience category:

-to his guest, Albert Einstein...
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Blocks category:

All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil - of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Books category:

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Drunkenness category:

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Humour category:

In the end, everything is a gag. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Humour category:

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Ideas category:

Ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the look-out for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Imagination category:

Imagination means nothing without doing. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Life category:

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

Charlie Chaplin - From the Money category:

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)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Mysteries category:

That which is apparent ends. That which is subtle is never-ending. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Recognition category:

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

Charlie Chaplin - From the Sadness category:

What a sad business is being funny! (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Truth category:

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live. (Charlie Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin - From the Understanding category:

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. (Charlie Chaplin)