Top 50 Chaplin Quotes

There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.

I have been following Charlie Chaplin since my childhood days. He is an inspiration to everyone.

Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.

I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked – it’s all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit of perfection, getting the gag right.

I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.

Chaplin himself was the greatest scene stealer of all time. No matter what was happening Charlie could draw attention to himself – if he wanted to.

All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad’s work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.

The end of ‘City Lights’ makes me cry every time I see it – when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel.

I was a great fan of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy; they always inspired me.

Maggie and I got married and then had to wait three years before we got to take our honeymoon because we were both working! Right before ‘Chaplin’ began, we got to go to Hawaii.

Chaplin was the greatest thing ever to hit motion pictures.

‘Spin City’ was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We’re all close. It was a really wonderful time.

I’m not Charlie Chaplin and will never, ever claim to be. But when I become the ‘Tramp,’ I can feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

As I don’t know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I’m just really happy it’s a family I can be proud of; it’s not as if I’m related to some Z-list celebrity.

I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton – it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.

It didn’t matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

The Hollywood business has been experiencing continual change since about 1915, when Charlie Chaplin was in Venice. The current time is no exception… You have to accept there will be constant change in the future.

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar’s comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

I was a big fan of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as the head writer the first year we started it.

‘Hera Pheri’ is inspired by ‘Laurel and Hardy,’ Charlie Chaplin. It is about humor of poverty.

My initial introduction to him was – this is a funny story… My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing up, told me that I looked like Charlie Chaplin. That didn’t really resonate with me when I was younger – I hadn’t seen a lot of his films.

I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love ‘The Great Dictator’ and ‘City Lights.’

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we’re still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after ‘The Kid.’ A great artist, one of the greatest, but I’m afraid I don’t think very much of him as a man. Running away from the country that gave him everything and denouncing the country in addition is something you simply can’t make any allowances for.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

It’s about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?

Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman while Buster Keaton wasn’t.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that’s more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They’re very powerful figures in my life.

When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had no idea about James Dean or the Beatles or Charlie Chaplin, modern music or modern cinema.

People always say to me, ‘It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,’ but I never knew anyone. I didn’t even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

My mother doesn’t have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I’m very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn’t because I was a Chaplin.

I don’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.

Kamal Haasan got inspired by his brief appearance in a role similar to Charlie Chaplin in ‘Punnagai Mannan’ and developed that into a full-fledged character in ‘Apoorva Sagodharargal.’

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that’s where he got his character ‘the tramp’ from. It’s a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

When people say ‘Charlie Chaplin’ I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk – I don’t think of an old man who was my grandfather.

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin’s movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

If people don’t sit at Chaplin’s feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting.

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we’d watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.

I remember vividly seeing ‘Tarzan’ and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers – Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

Charlie Chaplin was known to be an acrimonious person. Not that I compare myself to him but I am quite brusque, too.

I love ‘Chaplin’; I mean I really love ‘Chaplin.’ I just think there’s a grace and an elegance that’s almost never been matched.