Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination ... and a little dough. Calvero (Charles Chaplin) says this to Terry (Claire Bloom) in Limelight (1952)

“Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination… and a little dough.” From a scene in Limelight.

Whomever lives, gambles with life. Full quote: The mystic urge to gamble is as deep in man as the instinct to survive. It is as much a part of him and as unavoidable as breathing, for …

Quoted in Charles Chaplin Jr.’s “My Father, Charlie Chaplin”, 1961 : “You have to believe in yourself, that’s the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the streets …

Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental. From “My Autobiography”: “I once saw on a tombstone in the South of France a photograph of a smiling young girl of fourteen, …

Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole. It is the merging force binding every element in existence into a perfect whole.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. Hannah (Paulette Goddard) says this to the Barber (Charles Chaplin) in The Great Dictator (1940)

Chaplin is quoted in “A Woman of Paris Next Chaplin Film” in the Atlanta American, October 21, 1923: “I have tried to make a story of life as I see it—a life that is not composed of heroes and …

As an entrepreneur of comedy, my object is to create entertainment, invigorated by vital problems and situations current in American life. Humour must have access to all subject matter, ethical, …

Beauty is the spirit of all things, an exaltation, a psalm of life and death, of good and evil, of vileness and purity, of joy and pain, of hate and love—all of it incarnate in the object we see or …