Charlie Chaplin Quotations | Page 3

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.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

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

In the end, everything is a gag.