Charlie Chaplin

Quotes from Charlie Chaplin, famous silent film star, writer, director and producer, best known for his portrayal of 'the Little Tramp'

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

I remain just one thing

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. 

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I had no idea of the character

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. 

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All I need to make a comedy is …

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin

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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow …

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. 

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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but …

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot

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Actors search for rejection

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves. 

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing …

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish.
Limelight (Calvero’s answer to Terry’s question: “What is there to fight for?")

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

I thought I would dress in baggy pants

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.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Charlie Chaplin on the future of mankind

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table… I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first. (In response to journalist for his views on the future of mankind at his 70th birthday)

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Charlie Chaplin on his political views

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we’ve had our lesson there. I don’t want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.—in response to a journalist for comments on United States Attorney-General’s announcement to revoke his re-entry visa, September 23, 1952, Cherbourg, England (quoted from “Mr. Chaplin’s Defence,” Guardian)

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and …

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. 

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I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. 

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Laughter is the tonic …

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. 

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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is …

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. 

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism.

Charlie Chaplin on his exile from America

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.  Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities— a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

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