CHARLIE CHAPLIN

"My happiest days are those in which I do good work."

"There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books."

"Whomever lives, gambles with life."

"More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness"

"In all truth there is the seed of falsehood."

"Let's call them years of a friendly misalliance."

"What a sad business, being funny."

"Meeting people formally is like viewing a house without going inside."

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

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down."

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

"Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental."

"A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself."

"I am an artist, not a politician."

"We think too much and feel too little."

"Comedy must be true to life."

"You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile."

"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."

"To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune."

"It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

"If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance."

"Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish."

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

"Let us try to understand each other’s problems, for in modern warfare there is no victory."

"Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique."

"The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs."

"I neither believe nor disbelieve anything."

"Simplicity of approach is always best."

"I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me."

"The object of art is to intensify feeling, color or sound."

"I am an emotional cuss."

"Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph."

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

"I am what I am: an individual, unique and different."

"My lips never know my problem they just always smile"

"I am an artist. I am interested in life."

"People's affection hurts me but it's a beautiful pain."

"If I talked I would become like any other comedian."

"Cold, hunger and the shame of poverty are more likely to affect one's psychology."

"A day without laughing is a day wasted"

"The world cannot be wrong if in this world there's you."

"Whether sage or fool, we must all struggle with life."

"All children in some form or another have genius; the trick is to bring it out in them."

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain."

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

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