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Charlie Chaplin
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“Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Chaplin in this line is quoting an older statement of Bishop Beilby Porteus: "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero.
“I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Monsieur Verdoux (1947). Chaplin's answer as a Verdoux that is to be guillotined and receives a visit from a priest who tell him 'I've come to ask you to make your peace with God'. "Comedy Quotes from the Movies" (2001)…
“I am for people. I can't help it.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Observer [London] (28 September 1952)
“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 (1889–1977) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Observer (17 June 1960)
“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 (1889–1977) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Autobiography (1964)
“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Autobiography (1964), Ch. 10
“Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. 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. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities — a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Autobiography (1964)
“I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Autobiography (1964), p. 287
“I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas. Without faith, there never could have evolved hypothesis, theory, science or mathematics. I believe that faith is an extension of the mind. It is the key that negates the impossible. To deny faith is to refute oneself and the spirit that generates all our creative forces. My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Autobiography (1964), p. 291
“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Autobiography (1964) (p. 271 Simon and Schuster 1964 edition)
“Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you — if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Calvero's answer to Terry's question: "What is there to fight for?" in Limelight (1952)
“I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to journalist for his views on the future of mankind at his 70th birthday (16 April 1959)
“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 (1889–1977) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to journalist for comments on United States Attorney-General's announcement to revoke his re-entry visa, Cherbourg, England, as quoted in "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", The Guardian (23 September 1952)
“Look up to the sky You'll never find rainbows If you’re looking down.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Swing High Little Girl", opening song written and sung by Chaplin for the 1969 re-release of The Circus (1928) - Full text online
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in his obituary in The Guardian (28 December 1977)
“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 (1889–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hynkel Party take power. Meanwhile the Jewish soldier, ex-fighter and veteran of the World War, suffered a lost of memory and remained and inmate of the soldiers' hospital for many years. He was ignorant of the profound change that had come over Tomainia. Hynkel, the dictator, ruled the nation with an iron fist. Under the new emblem of the double cross, liberty was banished, free speech was suppressed and only the voice of Hynkel was heard.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Hynkel addressing the crowds, referring to his colleagues: clearly modelled upon Göring and Goebbels] Hynkel: Herring shouldn smelten fine from Garbitsch, und Garbitsch shouldn smelten fine from Herring. Herring und Garbitsch... [He clasps his hands together] Translator: His excellency has just referred to the struggles of his early days shared by his two loyal comrades.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Schultz: You must speak. Jewish barber: I can't. Schultz: It's our only hope.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source