Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world, there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

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. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Não consigo dormir esta noite. Encontro-me perante algo novo, algo pleno de expectativas. O futuro imediato é demasiado tentador para poder dormir.

L'uomo è un animale addomesticato che per secoli ha comandato sugli altri animali con la frode, la violenza e la crudeltà

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

الواقع أن تأثير الإنسان في نفوس الناس يكون أعمق إذا احتفظ بمسافة بينه وبينهم.

Although some we rarely see, the thought of them is comforting, like the pleasure of knowing there is a mooring somewhere, if occasionally we want to sail into port.

"فيما يخص الشهرة ، يصور لنا شابلن ذلك التناقض الشديد الذي أثاره في نفسه . فمع انه كان يتلذذ تماما بما يلاقيه من حماس الناس حياله وحيال أعماله كان يرى في ذلك ، في الوقت ذاته ، ضربا من الجنون . كان قد تاق دائما لأن يحظى بالشعبية ، "والآن وقد حصلت عليها – يقول شابلن- بت أحس بنفسي فريسة لشعور رازح بالوحدة". ويضيف " فاذا كانت بضع كوميديات هزلية بائسة تتسبب بهذا القدر من الحماس ، أليس ثمة شيئ زائف في الشهرة

Charlie is already outdated, Zheraldin! Sooner or later, instead of white silk to the scene, you will have to wear black to go to my grave. Now I do not want to bother. Only from time to time look in the mirror, there will see me. My blood runs in your veins. I even when in my veins the blood dried up, not to forget his father – Charlie. I was not an angel, but as far as could be stremyah to be a man. Try it and you.

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.
‘You must excuse his dirty face,’ said the nurse.
Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: ‘With all thy dirt I love thee still.

Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

Струва ми се, че от такива най-обикновени неща се роди душата ми.