Oona Chaplin quote: "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."

Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on &...
OONA CHAPLIN

People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions...
OONA CHAPLIN

I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights a...
OONA CHAPLIN

I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
OONA CHAPLIN

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue ...
OONA CHAPLIN

My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commun...
OONA CHAPLIN

As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'...
OONA CHAPLIN

My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak Engl...
OONA CHAPLIN

I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be...
OONA CHAPLIN

I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program p...
OONA CHAPLIN

When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler h...
OONA CHAPLIN

I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it ...
OONA CHAPLIN

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than...
RALPH CHAPLIN

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
RALPH CHAPLIN

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
RALPH CHAPLIN

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor soli...
RALPH CHAPLIN

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upo...
RALPH CHAPLIN

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

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and a...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

In the end, everything is a gag.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher pla...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from m...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and...
RALPH CHAPLIN

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie
Dust unto dust
The calm, sweet earth that mothe...
RALPH CHAPLIN

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roa...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward an...
RALPH CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher pl...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher p...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conque...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it do...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Why should poetry have to make sense?
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's hap...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clut...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish id...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The glamour of it all! New York! America!
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

We think too much and feel too little.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

El tiempo es el mejor autor: siempre encuentra un final perfecto.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all h...
RALPH CHAPLIN

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be de...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by t...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for t...
BEN CHAPLIN

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradictio...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Rudolph Valentino had an air of sadness. He wore his success gracefully, appearing almost subdued by...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on...
GERALDINE CHAPLIN

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

Mirror is my
Best Friend because
when i Cry
it never Laughs.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

We think too much and feel too little
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am înțeles că în toate împrejurările, mă aflam la ...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Nicole isn't here this evening because she's working. I can say with some certainty that it's got no...
BEN CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

It sounds like a simple process, but isn't. We train our clients in e-commerce, educate them about t...
DOLCEY CHAPLIN

The most wasted day in life is the day in which one has not laughed....
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I am for people. I can't help it.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Our Lord said, "Feed my sheep"; he did not say, "Count them."
DORA CHAPLIN

[Indeed, pop culture expert Robert Thompson, head of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of P...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

That´s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by t...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

(Everything) is in full throttle here.
TANYA CHAPLIN

It's going to be a mob scene.
MARK CHAPLIN

I think people have heard the name [Garbo], but I'm not sure that a lot of people out there know and...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me fe...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The building is a special place because of its architecture, ... But it's people who make it special...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

It seems our laws are always telling us what not to do - are always keeping us from enjoying ourselv...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Billions of years it´s taken to evolve human conciousness and you want to wipe it out. Wipe out the...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

That´s what all we are. Amateurs. We don´t live long enough to be anything else.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roa...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Imagination means nothing without doing.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.
But my laugh must never be the reason for someb...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie--
Dust unto dust--
The calm, sweet earth tha...
RALPH CHAPLIN

Obtaining this kind of work is not easy, especially for minorities, women and veterans, categories w...
DOLCEY CHAPLIN

Everyone knows a good deal about one child-himself.
DORA CHAPLIN

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't un...
BEN CHAPLIN

I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.
GERALDINE CHAPLIN

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise fr...
GERALDINE CHAPLIN

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.
GERALDINE CHAPLIN

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his...
GERALDINE CHAPLIN

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from m...
GERALDINE CHAPLIN

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
GERALDINE CHAPLIN

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.
BEN CHAPLIN

Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
BEN CHAPLIN

I like clothes that are simple and preferably cheap unless I'm being given it for free.
BEN CHAPLIN

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
LITA GREY CHAPLIN

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.

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Oona Chaplin

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.

Oona Chaplin

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