Charlie Chaplin Quotes - Page 6

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• You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Adventure, People

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

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• I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Jesus, People, World

  Quoted in Lita Grey Chaplin, My Life with Chaplin: An Intimate Memoir (1966)

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• In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

  Charlie Chaplin

  Attitude, Laughing, Tragedy

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• The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Understand Me, Audience

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• I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Jesus, Humorous

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

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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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humor, Wicked World, Politician

  The Observer, June 17, 1960.

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• So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Life, Sea, Want

  Song: Oh For The Life Of A Sardine

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• Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Humorous, Might

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• 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

  Shoes, Pants, Hats

  "Charlie Chaplin and the Tramp: the birth of a hero" by Pamela Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, People, Lovely

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• In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Hate, Adventure

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

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• I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

  Charlie Chaplin

  War, Differences, Atoms

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

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• Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Animal, Dancing, Soul

  Charlie Chaplin, Kevin J. Hayes (2005). “Charlie Chaplin: Interviews”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Adventure, Fighting

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

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• In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Attitude, Humble, Boys

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• If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Nostalgia, Window, Partnership

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• They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Cheer, Understand Me

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• As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Long, Liberty

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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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• 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Next, Prime

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• From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Believe, Soul, Trivia

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• Let us fight to free the world!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Fighting, World

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

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• I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Want, Revolution, Film

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

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• Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Remember You, Remembers You, Stoops

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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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