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
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. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
Imagination means nothing without doing.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
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.
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.
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!
It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.