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Charlie Chaplin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 16
Died: 1977
Died: December 25
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Charles Spencer Chaplin
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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.
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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.
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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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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I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.
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In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.
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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.
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Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
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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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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
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My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
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Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
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Simplicity of approach is always best.
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The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.
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Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.
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This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
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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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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
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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.
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Why not? After all, it belongs to him.
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