Humor is kindly. Wit is caustic. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) (Image by DarkWorkX from Pixabay) / (Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
That which is apparent ends. That which is subtle is never-ending. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) (Image by KatinkavomWolfenmond from Pixabay) / (Image by kytalpa from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine… More »
Comedy must be true to life. There must be realism in comedy. It is ever more necessary than in drama. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) / (Washington Times, January 26, 1915) (Image by Wilfried Pohnke… More »
That’s all any of us are – amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else. – Calvero — Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977): Limelight (Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay) / (Image by mohamed Hassan… More »
People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting… More »
Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) (Image by Виктория Бородинова from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Restraint is a great word, not only for actors but for everybody to remember. Restraint of tempers, appetites, desires, bad habits, and so on, is a mighty good thing to cultivate. One of the reasons I hated the early comedies… More »
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these… More »
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he… More »
Making fun is serious business. It calls for deep study, for concentrated observation. It is the business of a funny man to know what makes people laugh and why it makes them laugh. He must be a psychologist before he… More »
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