Charlie Chaplin — "Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing! Even to a jellyfish!"

"Once again, the same depressing question arose: should I make another silent film? I knew I would take a big risk by doing it. If I spoke, I would become an actor like the others."

"It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks."

"I have faith in the unknown, in everything that we do not understand by reason I believe that what is beyond our understanding is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the kingdom of the unkn…"

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

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."