English - Actor | April 16, 1889 - December 25, 1977
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.
Charlie Chaplin
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In the end, everything is a gag.
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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
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Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
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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 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.
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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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Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
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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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I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
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Why should poetry have to make sense?
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