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
Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.
Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.
My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.
In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs
We might as well die as to go on living like this.
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.
In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.
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.
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.