Charlie chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

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

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

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.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

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

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.

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 tie, even though I have just landed on my...