Oona Quotes

#1. I can't change how I die, but I can decide how I live. And I want to live that life with you." - Oona's Fortune.

Lucy Patton

#2. I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.

Oona Chaplin

#3. Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

John Milton

#4. My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.

Oona Chaplin

#5. I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

Oona Chaplin

#6. People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

Oona Chaplin

#7. As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.

Oona Chaplin

#8. When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.

Oona Chaplin

#9. I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.

Jim Al-Khalili

#10. The Yoruba say 'o d'oju ala' when someone dies. I will see you in dreams.

Tade Thompson

#11. I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children.

Oona Chaplin

#12. My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

Oona Chaplin

#13. I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.

Oona Chaplin

#14. I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.

Oona Chaplin

#15. The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Voltaire

#16. I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

Oona Chaplin

#17. Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.

Bruce Vilanch

#18. He'd wanted to mend her just like his mother had mended his favorite teddy bear when his arm had come loose after too much play. He offered her his pudding cup instead.

Brooke Warra

#19. My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

Oona Chaplin

#20. Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

Oona Chaplin

#21. One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.

Brooke Warra