I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.
People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke. ' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin. ' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.
He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.
Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W. C. Fields.
Chaplin is no businessman
Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.
You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed.
I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.
I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.
I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.
I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
