Tag Archives: Charlie Chaplin Motivational Thoughts

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. That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my …

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves. I am for people. I can’t help it. I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. 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. Man as an individual is a genius. But men in …