Charlie Chaplin

"I always like walking in the sun."

"War is comedy to those that think, tragedy to those who feel."

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business."

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

"As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs."

"Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely."

"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get rejected, they're not acting; they're just being people."

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

"I have no use for people who can be easily impressed."

"All of us want to help one another. Human beings are like that."

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down."

"That is all I have to offer – my own confused bewilderment."

"I don't believe in dividing the world into the rich and the poor."

"When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean."

"My pain may be the price of admission to a better world."

"Time is a precious thing. Don't waste it."

"To preserve a man's dignity one must not reduce him to the state of being a machine."

"I think we have to give up our sense of doom and gloom."

"That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else."

"I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction."

"If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change."

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."

"Remember, you have in your breast pockets a hope and a promise."

"I hope that my pictures have always shown that beneath the trappings of glamour there beats the same human heart."

"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrisy may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tediousness."

"I'm not religious, but I have this deep faith in humanity."

"Even as a child, I did not understand laughter."

"I thought I would devote my life to acting in one form or another."

"I would rather see the smile that is genuine even if it is scarce, than mouths full of teeth all the time."

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."