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
Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror
I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. 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.
I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.
Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]
One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero.
There is greatness in everyone.
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant
My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
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.
Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.
Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.
I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?