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| Charlie Chaplin
A day without laughter is a day wasted. A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. He's the greatest comedian alive.
I am at peace with my God.
My conflict is with man
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.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. I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If
people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the
truth.
In the end, everything is a gag. Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Motion pictures need dialogue as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. No matter how desperate the predicament is, I'm always very much in
earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing
my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.Nothing is permanent in this wicked world‚not even our troubles. The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.Words are cheap.The biggest thing you can say is elephant.
(On the universality of silent films.In
Barry Norman's _The Movie Greats_ [1981])You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. |
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