Quotes for All
Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It’s like the original violins were made in Cremona and there’s never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat. Emo Philips
He’s my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin. Emma Stone
I could never be Charlie Chaplin. But the films that were made by people like him, or Gene Wilder, or John Candy, the people that inspired me so much were the people that were able to combine humor with heartbreak so beautifully and fluidly. Those films I think were what inspired me to want to … Read more
I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston. Emily Haines
Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does – now that’s the highest of all personal achievements. I don’t know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal. Elliott Erwitt
In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, ‘for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century’. That’s what the Academy was always for – to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art. Edward Jay Epstein
What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to … Read more
Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities. Eduardo Galeano
I’d like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I’ll do that before I’m thirty. Eddie Murphy
He [Charlie Chaplin] was always playing as if it were to the camera, if you’ve seen the live shots of him when he’s going to an opening night or something like that. And the skills that he had were beyond my ability to throw together. You just couldn’t really compete with him. He was too … Read more