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
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 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.
Let us fight to free the world
I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.
Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.
It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.
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.
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.
As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.
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.
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.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.