Quotes by Charlie Chaplin

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

“Actors search for rejection. If they dont get it they reject themselves.”

“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”

“When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.”

“The worlds a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill”

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

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”

“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.”

“What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.”

“That´s what all we are. Amateurs. We don´t live long enough to be anything else.”

“Why should poetry have to make sense?”

“Billions of years it´s taken to evolve human conciousness and you want to wipe it out. Wipe out the miracle of all existence.”

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

“That´s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”

“That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you´ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

“No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.”

“Travelling expands the mind rarely”

“Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.”

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

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.