Charlie Chaplin

"I learned the business of show business by doing."

"To ridicule a man is to improve him."

"That is the great dictator's dream – to make the entire world his audience."

"I'm an average sort of fellow. That's the whole secret of life."

"I think we're all searching for something deeper."

"The beauty of the silent film was that it spoke every language."

"I am not a thinker. I am a feeler."

"What keeps humanity going is the hope that we can become better."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"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."

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."

"We think too much and feel too little."

"I have no faith in political ideologies. I believe in humans."

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair."

"You'll never know how far you can go until you try."

"More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

"I wanted the music to express only the emotions that words cannot express."

"What is it all but a trouble of ants on a dust heap, with the pomp of a sum total of religious fandango."

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."

"The Tramp remains my symbol of the fight against the destitution of the poor."

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"The ability to create is the greatest gift of humanity."

"A man's true measure is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"I have often wanted to weep over the weakness of mankind."

"That is the reason I hate dictators and all the enemies of individual freedom."

"I believe that a smile is the shortest distance between two people."

"We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty."