Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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Charlie Chaplin

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 16, 1889

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Charlie Chaplin

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

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Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

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

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Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

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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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Why should poetry have to make sense?

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I am for people. I can't help it.

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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

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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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Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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

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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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We might as well die as to go on living like this.

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I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

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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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The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

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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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