Chaplin Quote by Leslie Nielsen

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

— Lita Grey Chaplin

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today…

— Leonard Maltin

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp'…

— Chris Tucker

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

— Helen Fielding

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness…

— Doug Stanhope

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

He's never portrayed as being funny. He was a very funny, happy, lively person. Fun to be around and exciting. He was my hero.

— Jack Hemingway

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses…

— William Hazlitt

Comedy is what keeps us alive.

— George Schlatter

Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists…

— A. R. Rahman

I've always loved comedy.

— Michael Waltrip