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Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977] English

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Actor, Comic

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film.

Alone, Art, Beauty, Business, Chance, Courage, Failure, God, Great, Happiness, Humor, Imagination, Life, Men, Money, Movies, Patience, Peace, Poetry, Romantic, Time, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
A day without laughter is a day wasted.	Humor	101
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.	Courage, Failure	102
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!		103
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.	Life	104
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.		105
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.		106
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.	Chance	107
We think too much and feel too little.		108
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.		109
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.	Great, Men	110
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.		111
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.	Time	112
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.	Romantic	113
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.		114
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.		115
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.	Beauty, Patience	116
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.		117
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.		118
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.		119
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.	God, Peace	120
The glamour of it all! New York! America!		121
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.		122
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.		123
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.		124
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.	Art, Business, Money, Truth	125
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.		126
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.	Movies	201
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.		202
Why should poetry have to make sense?	Poetry	203
I am for people. I can't help it.		204
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.		205
We might as well die as to go on living like this.		206
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.	Happiness	207
In the end, everything is a gag.		208
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.		209
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.	Imagination	210
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.		211
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.		212
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.	Alone	213
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.		214
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.		215
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.		216

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