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
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.
You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.
I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.
I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.
The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.
If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.
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.
The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world!
I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.
I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.
I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.