Charlie Chaplin/first National 1918-1922

Famous quotes containing the words charlie chaplin, charlie, chaplin and/or national:

    I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
    Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)

    Don’t pay any attention to Ah Ling. He has a mania for quoting Confucius. And Charlie Chan.
    —Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Mrs. Houghland, Murder by Television, reassuring her friends after the houseboy has pointed out a sign of ill omen (1935)

    I’m a vegetarian.
    —Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)

    All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
    Thomas Paine (1737–1809)