Chaplin Quote by Lita Grey Chaplin

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

— Leslie Nielsen

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

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

— Roger Ebert

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

— Jerry Lewis

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

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

— Anonymous

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

— Oliver Hardy

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

“Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Krazy Kat getting hit on the head by a brick…

— Charles M. Schulz

“To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

— Henny Youngman

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

— Richard Attenborough