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
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone
You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure..
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
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.
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.