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  • I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man.
    • Monsieur Verdoux (1947). Chaplin's answer as a Verdoux that is to be guillotined and receives a visit from a priest who tell him 'I've come to ask you to make your peace with God'. "Comedy Quotes from the Movies" (2001), Larry Langman, Paul Gold, Ed. McFarland, p. 274
  • I am for people. I can't help it.
    • As quoted in The Observer [London] (28 September 1952)
  • 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.
    • As quoted in The Observer (17 June 1960)
  • 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.
    • My Autobiography (1964)
  • All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
    • My Autobiography (1964), Ch. 10
  • Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.
    Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities — a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.
    • My Autobiography (1964)
  • I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
    • My Autobiography (1964), p. 287
  • I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas. Without faith, there never could have evolved hypothesis, theory, science or mathematics. I believe that faith is an extension of the mind. It is the key that negates the impossible. To deny faith is to refute oneself and the spirit that generates all our creative forces. My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.
    • My Autobiography (1964), p. 291
  • I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.
    • My Autobiography (1964) (p. 271 Simon and Schuster 1964 edition)
  • Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you — if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.
    • Calvero's answer to Terry's question: "What is there to fight for?" in Limelight (1952)
  • I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.
    • In response to journalist for his views on the future of mankind at his 70th birthday (16 April 1959)
  • I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism — and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.
    • In response to journalist for comments on United States Attorney-General's announcement to revoke his re-entry visa, Cherbourg, England, as quoted in "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", The Guardian (23 September 1952)
  • Look up to the sky
    You'll never find rainbows
    If you’re looking down.
  • Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
    • As quoted in his obituary in The Guardian (28 December 1977)
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