Chaplin Quotes

Chaplin is no businessman

— Samuel Goldwyn, Jr

Working with Chaplin was a marvelous experience.

— Jackie Coogan

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

— Chevy Chase

I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

— Emily Haines

I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

— Bronson Pinchot

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

— Bette Midler

I want to make the kind of films that Charlie Chaplin did.

— Johnny Lever

I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.

— Stan Laurel

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

— Robert Downey, Jr

When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.

— Ethan Slater

I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been…

— Gary Ross

There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.

— John Lasseter

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

— Jon Landau

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

— Louise Brooks

He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really…

— Emma Stone

That picture was made before there was even a union in this business. So, I don't make any money out of the…

— Jackie Coogan

Charlie Chaplin was known to be an acrimonious person. Not that I compare myself to him but I am quite brusque, too.

— Paresh Rawal

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen…

— Sergio Leone

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I…

— Josh Gad

He [Charlie Chaplin] was always playing as if it were to the camera, if you've seen the live shots of him when…

— Eddie Izzard

People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never…

— Samuel Goldwyn

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the…

— Richard Attenborough

I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I…

— Jackie Coogan

“In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd…

— John B. S. Haldane

Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was…

— Emo Philips

“The man with the Charlie Chaplin mustache, who had been a down-and-out tramp in Vienna in his youth, an unknown soldier of…

— William L. Shirer

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the…

— Seth Godin

In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are…

— Gilbert Seldes

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

— Norman Lear

If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting.

— Herman J. Mankiewicz

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

— Alex Winter

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

— Samuel Goldwyn

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

— Philippe Petit

I was a big fan of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

'Hera Pheri' is inspired by 'Laurel and Hardy,' Charlie Chaplin. It is about humor of poverty.

— Priyadarshan

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Lita Grey Chaplin

You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed.

— Jacques Tati