Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was 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.
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Look up to the sky. You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
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.
Nothing is permanent is this wicked world, not even our troubles.
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.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
You need power, only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done.
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat.
everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it.
If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants;
this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown.
It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles
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. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
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.
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown.
It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
