"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man." Charlie Chaplin
"I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment." Charlie Chaplin
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." Charlie Chaplin
"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing." Charlie Chaplin
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!" Charlie Chaplin
"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career." Charlie Chaplin
"We might as well die as to go on living like this." Charlie Chaplin
"We think too much and feel too little." Charlie Chaplin
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." Charlie Chaplin
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| Chaplin as The Tramp, 1915 |
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919.
Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the music hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin was identified with left-wing politics during the McCarthy era and he was ultimately forced to resettle in Europe from 1952.
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"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'." Charlie Chaplin
"In the end, everything is a gag." Charlie Chaplin
"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference." Charlie Chaplin
"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President." Charlie Chaplin
"I am for people. I can't help it." Charlie Chaplin
"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning." Charlie Chaplin
"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk." Charlie Chaplin
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." Charlie Chaplin
"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain." Charlie Chaplin
"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone." Charlie Chaplin
"Why should poetry have to make sense?" Charlie Chaplin
"Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage." Charlie Chaplin
"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it." Charlie Chaplin
"The glamour of it all! New York! America!" Charlie Chaplin
"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people." Charlie Chaplin
"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury." Charlie Chaplin
"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves." Charlie Chaplin
"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch." Charlie Chaplin
"To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune." Charlie Chaplin
"Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews." Charlie Chaplin
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." Charlie Chaplin
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." Charlie Chaplin
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