Charlie Chaplin

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone.

Charlie Chaplin

I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Charlie Chaplin

If a few slapstick comedies could arouse such excitement, was there not something bogus about all celebrity?

Charlie Chaplin

If a gag interfered with the logic of events, no matter how funny it was I would not use it.

Charlie Chaplin

If people know how it’s done, all the magic goes.

Charlie Chaplin

It is always the unexpected that happens, both in moving pictures and in real life.

Charlie Chaplin

It is not reality that matters in a film but what the imagination can make of it.

Charlie Chaplin

It isn’t the ups and downs that make life difficult; it’s the jerks.

Charlie Chaplin

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew… I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.

Charlie Chaplin