Charlie Chaplin Quotes
Top 10 Quotes by Charlie Chaplin
That obstinate, suspicious, egocentric. maddening and lovable genius of a problem child, Charlie Chaplin.
One of the things most quickly learned in theatrical work is that people as a whole get satisfaction from seeing the rich get the worst of things. The reason for this, of course, lies in the fact that nine tenths of the people in the world are poor, and secretly resent the wealth of the other tenth.
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.
Action is more generally understood than words. The lift of an eyebrow, however faint, may convey more than a hundred words.
From the making of pictures I get a good deal of thrill. I get it more as a director and producer than I do as an actor. It is the old satisfaction that someone is making something, forming something that has body.