Charlie Chaplin
Famous Quote:
" All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Comedic Actor, Filmmaker
Charlie Chaplin
Famous Quote:
" Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
Film Director & ProducerFamous Quote:
" Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
Actress / Sex SymbolFamous Quote:
" Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, & LecturerFamous Quote:
" I'll give you a definite maybe.
Motion Picture Studio ExecutiveFamous Quote:
" My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Actor, Film Director, Producer, & WriterFamous Quote:
" It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Screenwriter, Playwright, Television Producer, & Narrator | The Twilight ZoneFamous Quote:
" The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
American NewscasterFamous Quote:
" When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
Producer, Director, Writor, ActorFamous Quote:
" Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Renowned Guitarist, Musician, Singer and SongwriterFamous Quote:
" It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Entrepreneur, Animator, Voice Actor and Film ProducerFamous Quote:
" The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Actor, Director, Producer, Race Car Driver, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, ActivistFamous Quote:
" The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Novelist & ScreenwriterFamous Quote:
" Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
ComedianFamous Quote:
To a young Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
" Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
American ActorFamous Quote:
" Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Science writerFamous Quote:
" I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
Comedian, Writer, Stage, Film, Radio, & Television StarFamous Quote:
" The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Author and JournalistFamous Quote:
" I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Screenwriter, Director, Actor, Comedian, Author, Playwright, & MusicianFamous Quote:
" The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Essayist, Publisher, Playwright, Literary, Social CriticFamous Quote:
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare" I'll moider da bum!
Heavyweight BoxerFamous Quote:
" Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Actress & ModelFamous Quote:
" I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
Film & Television Director, Screenwriter & Television ProducerFamous Quote:
" You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Novelist & ScreenwriterFamous Quote:
" From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Comedian, Writer, Stage, Film, Radio, & Television StarFamous Quote:
" I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
Actor, Producer, Businessman, Investor, Author, Philanthropist, Activist, PoliticianFamous Quote:
" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
WriterFamous Quote:
" I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Chairman, IBM CorporationFamous Quote:
" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Writer, Filmmaker, Teacher, Political ActivistFamous Quote:
" The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Screenwriter, Director, Actor, Comedian, Author, Playwright, & MusicianFamous Quote:
" What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Pioneer Film ProducerFamous Quote:
While attending a Production Meeting
" This is no place to ask questions!!
Producer Buffy the Vampire SlayerFamous Quote:
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
" We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
Two Time Academy Award winning Actor & MusicianFamous Quote:
" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
NovelistFamous Quote:
" Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
From: The Empire Strikes Back…
Jedi Master (Voice by Frank Oz)Famous Quote:
" Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
British Filmmaker aka The Master of Suspense!Famous Quote:
" The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
Irish PlaywriteFamous Quote:
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
" If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Singer, Comedian, Actress & Radio PersonalityFamous Quote:
" The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Actor, Vaudeville Performer, Cowboy, Humorist, Newspaper Columnist, Social CommentatorFamous Quote:
" Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Journalist, Comedian, Writer & Media PersonalityFamous Quote:
" Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Studio Executive (MGM)Famous Quote:
" The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
Author, Educator, Media Theorist, Cultural CriticFamous Quote:
" Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
French AuthorFamous Quote:
" Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Motion Picture Studio ExecutiveFamous Quote:
" The average American family hasn't time for television.
'Real' American News PublicationFamous Quote:
" No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
Photographer, Theoretician, Critic & EducatorFamous Quote:
" All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Comedic Actor, FilmmakerFamous Quote:
" Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Philosopher, Essayist, & PoetFamous Quote:
" Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
Playwright and PoetFamous Quote:
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
" Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
ActorFamous Quote:
" I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Singer / ActorFamous Quote:
" I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Comedian, Writer, Stage, Film, Radio, & Television Star
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