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
It seems our laws are always telling us what not to do - are always keeping us from enjoying ourselves. Human beings are made just as much for having fun as goose-stepping and sweating in factories.
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.
What a sad business is being funny!
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. 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.
Let us fight to free the world
I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!