From My Autobiography: “I was beginning to think of comedy in a structural sense, and to become conscious of its architectural form. I feel a little more kindly disposed toward the first-cabin passengers. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy. After all, I am an emotional cuss.”. My name is Asad Meah, I am the CEO & Founder of AwakenTheGreatnessWithin. You can imagine what an unexpected pleasure it was for me when I discovered your letter on my desk this morning…”. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Charlie Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. Don't cry because it's over. One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one's fellow man. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. Our existence is a half-dream ... it is difficult to know where the dream ends and reality begins. I have no design for living, no philosophy — whether sage or fool, we must all struggle with life. In other words, through humour we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant. All children in some form or another have genius; the trick is to bring it out in them.”. 1. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Her family were very much against the match since she was only 18 years old at the time. He was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. Yes, the world has given me its best and little of its worst. Cold, hunger and the shame of poverty are more likely to affect one’s psychology.”. Whatever were my ill vicissitudes, I believe that fortune and ill-fortune drift upon one haphazardly as clouds. Chaplin’s childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship, as his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, and he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. There had been satire, farce, realism, naturalism, melodrama and fantasy, but raw slapstick and sentiment, the premise of The Kid, was something of an innovation.”, From My Autobiography: “I do not believe acting can be taught. Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) became a star well before movies had sound.But his talent to turn the tragedies of everyday people into epic comedies has made him immortal on the silver screen as he played everything from a tramp to a buffoon dictator. From a letter that Charlie Chaplin wrote to Hetty Kelly, July 18, 1918: “Do you remember, Hetty, I once told you that money and success were not everything. From My Autobiography, on working with Jackie Coogan : “They say babies and dogs are the best actors in movies.