CHARLIE CHAPLIN

"Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul."

"I am an artist, not a politician."

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

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

"Acting essentially requires feeling."

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

"A day without laughing is a day wasted"

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

"Because of humour we are less overwhelmed by the vicissitudes of life."

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

"I am a citizen of the world."

"I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying."

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

"Deep down we all have a sense of our own inadequacy about coping with life."

"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."

"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man."

"I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy."

"I neither believe nor disbelieve anything."

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

"I am an emotional cuss."

"I see no tragedy in the loneliness of old age, only the convenience of it."

"Imagination means nothing without doing."

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

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

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

"I’m unconscious while I’m acting. I live the role and am not myself."

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

"Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole."

"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone"

"Life is a play that does not allow testing."

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

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

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

"My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain."

"My costume helps me to express my conception of the average man, of almost any man, of myself."

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

"My only enemy is time."

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

"Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage."

"My tramp is made up of mimicry."

"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."

"One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one's fellow man."

"Our tragedies are only as big as we make them."

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

"Simplicity is not a simple thing."