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
I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
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.
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror
When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.
Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.
Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.
What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning!