34 quotes
Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
My Autobiography (1964)
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
My Autobiography (1964)
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.
This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.
The Great Dictator (1940)
I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man.
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas.
My Autobiography (1964)
I am an individual and a believer in liberty.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
The Great Dictator (1940)
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
The Great Dictator (1940)
Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
My Autobiography (1964)
In this world, there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
The Great Dictator (1940)
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)
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
The Great Dictator (1940)
Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.
The Great Dictator (1940)
Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
The Great Dictator (1940)