Chaplin Quotes

Chaplin Quote of the day

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed.

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

Chaplin is no businessman

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.

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

Only the unloved hate

Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.

...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.