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
They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
I will not join any club who will take me as a member.
I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don`t know that. They always smile
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
I am for people. I can't help it.
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for LIBERTY! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
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.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
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.
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
The glamour of it all! New York! America!
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.