Charlie Chaplin Quotes on Life, Love and Inspriation
2. I love walking in the rain because no one can see my tears.
3. Nothing is forever in this world, even our problems.
4. A Day without laugh is the day totally wasted.
5. The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful.
6. I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know that. They always smile.
7. We think too much and feel too little.
8. Your Future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
9. As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own trut. Today I know, this is authenticity.
10. You need power, only when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise, Love is enough to get everything done.
11. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
12. The most sweet-hearted people are the most mistreated people.
13. My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
14. My only enemy is TIME.
15. A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin, one of the most financially successful stars of early Hollywood, was introduced to the stage when he was five. The son of London music hall entertainers, young Chaplin was watching a show starring his mother when her voice cracked. He was quickly shuffled onto the stage to finish the act.
Chaplin’s father died when Chaplin was a toddler, and when his mother had a nervous breakdown Chaplin and his older half-brother, Sydney, roamed London, where they danced on the streets and collected pennies in a hat. They eventually went to an orphanage and joined the Eight Lancashire Lads, a children’s dance troupe. When Chaplin was 17, he developed his comedic skills with the help of Fred Karno’s company, for which his half-brother had already become a popular comedian. Soon, Chaplin’s bowler hat, out-turned feet, mustache and walking cane became his trademark. He joined the Keystone company and filmed Making a Living, in which he played a mustachioed villain who wore a monocle. It wasn’t long before he also worked on the other side of the camera, helping direct his 12th film and directing his 13th, Caught in the Rain, on his own.
Charlie Chaplin refined what would soon become his legacy, the character Charlie the Tramp, and signed on with the Essanay company in 1915 for $1,250 a week, plus a $10,000 bonus--quite a jump from the $175 that Keystone paid him. The next year, he signed with Mutual for $10,000 a week, plus a $150,000 bonus under a contract that required him to make 12 films annually but granted him complete creative control over the pictures. And in 1918, he signed a contract with First National for $1 million for eight films. A masterful silent film actor and pantomimist who could elicit both laughter and tears from his audiences, Chaplin resisted the arrival of sound in movies. Indeed, in his first film that featured sound (City Lights in 1931), he only used music. His first true sound film was 1940’s The Great Dictator, in which he mocked fascism.
Charlie Chaplin founded the United Artists Corporation in 1919 with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and director D.W. Griffith. Chaplin married twice more, both times to teenage girls. His fourth wife, Oona O’Neill, who was 18 when she married the 54-year-old actor, was the daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill. Though he had lived in the United States for 42 years, Chaplin never became a U.S. citizen. A vocal pacifist, Chaplin was accused of communist ties, which he denied. Nevertheless, in 1952, immigration officials prevented Chaplin and his wife from re-entering the United States after a foreign tour. The couple did not return to the United States for 20 years; instead they settled in Switzerland with their eight children. Chaplin returned to America 1972 to accept a special Academy Award for “the incalculable effect he has had on making motion pictures the art for and of this century.” He was knighted Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin in 1975. He died two years later.
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