Charlie Chaplin

The world is full of wonders, but we are too busy to see them.

I don't believe in anything. I just believe in myself.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I am not a Communist, but I am proud to say that I feel pretty pro-Communist.

I'm not a citizen, I don't need citizenship papers, and I've never had patriotism in that sense for any country, but I'm a patriot to humanity as a whole. I'm a citizen of the world.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Greed has poisoned men's souls—has barricaded the world with hate—has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness hard and unkind.

I'm not working in the political arena. I'm working in the human arena. Had I included Stalin, I would surely been getting into politics because there was no reason to include him from the standpoint I was taking.

I'd give the talkies three years, that's all.

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

One doesn't have to be a Jew to be anti-Nazi. All one has to be is a normal decent human being.

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

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

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination ... and a little dough.

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

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

They say communism may spread out all over the world. And I say – so what?

I am like a man who is ever haunted by a spirit, the spirit of poverty, the spirit of privation.

The whole point of the Little Fellow is that no matter how down on his ass he is, no matter how well the jackals succeed in tearing him apart, he's still a man of dignity.

These days if you step off the curb with your left foot, they accuse you being a communist.