289 Quotes by Charlie Chaplin

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

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

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

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.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.