Famous quotes containing the words charlie chaplin, charlie, chaplin and/or national:
“I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life—doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
“We [actors] are indeed a strange lot! There are times we doubt that we have any emotions we can honestly call our own. I have approached every dynamic scene change in my life the same way. When I married Charlie MacArthur, I sat down and wondered how I could play the best wife that ever was.... My love for him was the truest thing in my life; but it was still important that I love him with proper effect, that I act loving him with great style, that I achieve the ultimate in wifedom.”
—Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
“The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)