Charlie Chaplin Quotes - Page 7

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• The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Unity, Brotherhood

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Friendship, Men, Age

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• Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Dictator

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Goes On, Might, Wells

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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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Character, Clothes, Ideas

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• The glamour of it all! New York! America!

  Charlie Chaplin

  New York, America, Style

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• Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Want, Despotism, Shots

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• The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Drama, Blood

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• This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.

  Charlie Chaplin

  War, Cutting, Two

  "The Great Dictator". www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Irony, Moments, Wrong Things

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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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Ties, Matter, Fixing

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• 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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fall, Lines

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• 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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Hands, Political

  "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 1952.

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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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Way, Comedy, Desperate

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• When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, Dirty, Flower

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humorous, Rejection, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Actors, Want, Fads

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• Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Fun, Insanity, Horror

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• Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Children, Cutting, Hair

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• It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, People, World

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• Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Feelings, Film

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• In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

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• Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Names, Soldier, Democracy

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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