I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
Charlie ChaplinI went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie ChaplinThe people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.
Charlie ChaplinFriends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.
Charlie Chaplin