Quotes About Charlie Chaplin

#1. She saw Hitler as "a clown who looked like Charlie Chaplin." Like many others in America at this time and elsewhere in the world, she could not imagine him lasting very long or being taken seriously.

Erik Larson

#2. For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Carol Tavris

#3. Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

#4. Don't forget - Charlie Chaplin too, my friend." "I'd do an imitation, but I don't know what he sounds like." "Hey, not bad, boss. You can open for me in the Catskills.

Dennis Lehane

#5. Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

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#6. Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

Chris Tucker

#7. There is greatness in everyone.

Charlie Chaplin

#8. In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Charlie Chaplin

#10. Guarda il cielo. Non troverai mai un arcobaleno se stai guardando per terra.
Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down.

Charlie Chaplin

#11. 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.

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#12. Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

A.R. Rahman

#13. A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Charlie Chaplin

#14. I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

Bronson Pinchot

#15. I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. That which can be imagined is as much an approximation to truth as that which can be proved by mathematics.

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#16. Simplicity is not a simple thing.

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#17. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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#18. He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.

Emma Stone

#19. When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

Leslie Nielsen

#20. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself

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#21. You will never find a rainbow if you are looking down

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#22. Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

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#23. We might as well die as to go on living like this.

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#24. As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

Charlie Chaplin

#25. It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew ... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

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#26. Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

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#27. In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

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#28. Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

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#29. Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.

John B. S. Haldane

#30. Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

Charlie Chaplin

#31. They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.

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#32. Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

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#33. Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

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#34. Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

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#35. That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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#36. Imagination means nothing without doing.

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#37. I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know that. They just keep smiling.

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#38. Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Buster Keaton

#39. Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

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#40. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

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#41. I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

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#42. My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

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#43. Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

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#44. Life salutes u when u make others happy

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#45. I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

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#46. I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

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#47. I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

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#48. Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

Lita Grey

#49. Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

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

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#51. My lips never know my problem they just always smile

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#52. To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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#53. I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

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#54. I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

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#55. The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

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#56. Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Doug Stanhope

#57. Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

Charlie Chaplin

#58. I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

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#59. You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

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#60. That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

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#61. Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

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#62. I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

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#63. I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

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#64. And I am going to have another opportunity. I am going to have a week-end with him at his home in Easton, a week-end with Wells at home, with just his family. That alone is worth the entire trip from Los Angeles to Europe.

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#65. I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

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#66. As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

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#67. Nothing is more important than the moving image;
except for my cup of coffee in the morning.

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#68. 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

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#69. Let us fight to free the world

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#70. Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

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#71. Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.

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#72. Why should poetry have to make sense?

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#73. Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

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#74. Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

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#75. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

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#76. 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.

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#77. In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

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#78. My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

Alex Winter

#79. In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

Charlie Chaplin

#80. I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

Lasse Hallstrom

#81. All I need is the opportunity,' I said confidently. He smiled. 'Seventeen's very young, and you look even younger.' I shrugged off-handedly. 'That's a question of make-up.' Karno laughed. That shrug, he told Sydney later, got me the job.

Charlie Chaplin

#82. Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

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#83. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.

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#84. I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it's 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.

Geoff Ryman

#85. Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

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#86. I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

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#87. The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

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#88. Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

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#89. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

Pierre Niney

#90. Life could be wonder full
if people would leave you alone ...

Charlie Chaplin

#91. I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

Jack Reynor

#92. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness

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#93. 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.

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#94. I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

#95. The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel.

Emma Stone

#96. I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

Charlie Chaplin

#97. A day without laughing is a day wasted

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#98. Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics,

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#99. What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

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#100. When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

Michel Hazanavicius