Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBEwas an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth16 April 1889
CityWalworth, England
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone
Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in; machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity, more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities life will be violent and all will be lost.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
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.
That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.