Charlie Chaplin Quotes - Page 5

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• In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Discovery, Philadelphia, Atheism

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• Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Silence, Sound

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• I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Religious, Believe, Dogmatic

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

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• I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Dream, Unique, Special

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

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• I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sin, Shock, Sophistication

  "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. 1952.

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• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Lonely, Travel, Loneliness

  "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Believe, Careers, Wicked World

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• Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Wicked World, Wonderful

  "Fictional character: Hannah". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beauty, Sadness, Poet

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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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beauty, Patience, Understanding

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• Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Moving, Symphony, Sound

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• Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Stars, Chaos, Born

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• My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Character, Figures, Tramps

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• That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Wicked World, Trouble, Despise

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• I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. 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. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Hate, Men

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

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• What a sad business is being funny!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sadness, Being Funny

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• Nothing is more important than the moving image;
  except for my cup of coffee in the morning.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Morning, Coffee, Moving

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• Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Positive Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sorry, Want, Dictator

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

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• The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Aquariums, Theatre, Acting

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• What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Stars, Axes

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• Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Benefits, Politics, Dictator

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• The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Special, Architecture

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• One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hero, Murder, Villain

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", 1947.

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• The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Taken, Rights

  "Fictional character: Garbitsch". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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