The Great Dictator quotes

View Quote I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

View Quote In response to journalist for comments on United States Attorney-General's announcement to revoke his re-entry visa, Cherbourg, England, as quoted in "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", The Guardian (23 September 1952)

View Quote In response to journalist for his views on the future of mankind at his 70th birthday (16 April 1959)

View Quote Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

View Quote Lyrics to "Smile", written by John Turner and Geoffrey Claremont Parsons in 1954, the music of which was composed by Chaplin in 1936. - "Smile" music, as used in Modern Times (1936) - "Smile" tribute to Chaplin, as sung by Michael Jackson

View Quote Mary Pickford in "Mary Pickford's Favorite Stars and Films". Photoplay, January 1924, p. 28-29. (Photoplay Publishing Company).[1]

View Quote Narrator

View Quote Opening placard

View Quote People from London

View Quote Profile page on A King in New York (1957), at CharlieChaplin.com

View Quote Quoted by many sites and blogs as "speech that Charlie Chaplin gave on his 70th birthday". Actually, a re-translation (from Portuguese-BR) of a text from the book "When I Loved Myself Enough" by Kim & Alison McMillen (2001).

View Quote Reported by many sites to have been said by Chaplin upon signing the papers to create the United Artists studio (1919), this is believed to actually be derived from a remark about the same event attributed to Richard Rowland, the head of Metro Pictures: "The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum"; variant derivations or reports of this statement also include "The lunatics have taken over the asylum", and the attribution to Rowland is reported to have occurred at least as early as 1926, in the work A Million and One Nights by Terry Ramsaye, and as recently as in Variety (16 October 2005)

View Quote Satirists from the United Kingdom

View Quote Socialists from England

View Quote Stephen M. Weissman, in "Exile’s Return : A Lion In Winter" (2008)