Chaplin Quotes

Douglas Fairbanks: Charles, you're a foreigner; you're still an outsider. You've never understood this country.
Charlie Chaplin: It's a good country underneath, Doug.
Douglas Fairbanks: No, it's a good country on *top*. Underneath, that's what starts showing when we're scared.

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Paulette: Did you lose your other wives this way?
Charlie Chaplin: I think so. But you'd have to ask them.

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Sydney Chaplin: Nobody wants to see a movie about Adolf ****ing Hitler.
Charlie Chaplin: [shouts] I do! [with one hand throws a chair down the aisle, again fiercely shouts]
Charlie Chaplin: I do!

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[Chaplin tells Sennett he intends to leave Sennett's employ and open his own studio]
Mack Sennett: Charlie, I've been so rotten to you. I don't know if you can forgive me. I forced you to leave Butte, Montana. I made you accept a hundred and fifty per. You mentioned directing and I stuffed that down your throat too. Now tell me how else Uncle Mack can make it up to you!
Charlie Chaplin: I want to run my own show, Mack.
Mack Sennett: Don't kid yourself, Chaplin. You're not that big. [spits on the floor, missing the spitoon]
Charlie Chaplin: That's the first time I've ever seen you miss, Mack.

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