"If you want to understand me, watch my movies." -- Charlie Chaplin
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[Chaplin tells Sennett he intends to leave Sennett's employ and open his own studio] Mack Sennett: Charlie, I've been so rotten to you. I don't know if you can forgive me. I forced you to leave Butte, Montana. I made you accept a hundred and fifty per. You mentioned directing and I stuffed that down your throat too. Now tell me how else Uncle Mack can make it up to you! Charlie Chaplin: I want to run my own show, Mack. Mack Sennett: Don't kid yourself, Chaplin. You're not that big. [spits on the floor, missing the spitoon] Charlie Chaplin: That's the first time I've ever seen you miss, Mack.
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Douglas Fairbanks: Say, are you two still married or what? I find it all very confusing. Charlie Chaplin: Mmm... it's not at all confusing. You see, when everyone thought we were having an affair, we were married. Now that everyone realizes we're married, we're getting divorced. Douglas Fairbanks: Man's a wizard with women. No question about it.
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Charlie Chaplin: If you want to understand me, watch my movies.
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[Sennett is explaining the film industry to Chaplin as Rollie edits a film] Mack Sennett: Now I know this is all new to ya, but remember something, we're all new. This is not an ancient industry. This whole place here is built around speed. Start the story, start the chase. I get bored easy. Rollie Totheroh: How much you reckon Mack? Couple yards of Mabel? Mack Sennett: Hmm, yeah. Nah, make it three. But don't go thinking we sacrifice quality. I never make more than two motion pictures a week, but I'll spend up to a thousand dollars on each of 'em if I have to.
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Charlie Chaplin: Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.
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Charlie Chaplin: I'm sorry, I prefer not to shake hands with Nazis. German Diplomat: What have you got against us, Mr. Chaplin? Charlie Chaplin: What have you got against everybody else? Man at party: You'll have to forgive him. He's a Jew! German Diplomat: Really. Charlie Chaplin: I'm afraid I DON'T have that honor! Excuse me. Woman at party: [to Chaplin as he leaves] Shame on you!
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Paulette: Did you lose your other wives this way? Charlie Chaplin: I think so. But you'd have to ask them.
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Charlie Chaplin: Syd, I love this country. I owe it everything. That's why I *can* make fun of it!
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[about Hetty Kelly] George Hayden: But you didn't even kiss her! Charlie Chaplin: Don't you think I know that?
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Douglas Fairbanks: Charles, you're a foreigner; you're still an outsider. You've never understood this country. Charlie Chaplin: It's a good country underneath, Doug. Douglas Fairbanks: No, it's a good country on *top*. Underneath, that's what starts showing when we're scared.
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Sydney Chaplin: Nobody wants to see a movie about Adolf fucking Hitler. Charlie Chaplin: [shouts] I do! [with one hand throws a chair down the aisle, again fiercely shouts] Charlie Chaplin: I do!
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Charlie Chaplin: Actress?
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J. Edgar Hoover: I have to wonder if you people realize the level of responsibility you carry. From my way of thinking, Motion Pictures are potentially the most influential form of communication ever invented. And there's no control over it. Your message reaches everyone, everywhere. Mary Pickford: Message? J. Edgar Hoover: Of course, Mr. Chaplin here reaches millions who only have to see; and when they see a mockery being made of our immigration services, I call that a message. Charlie Chaplin: Yes, well, uh, as you've already said Mr. Hoover, Motion Pictures are for the people; most of the people work for a living, and they don't make much money doing it; gives them pleasure to see an official from the upper classes getting a kick up the backside. Always has, and it always will; and if that can change things, so much the better. [in a better pronounced, less cockney voice] Charlie Chaplin: Bet-ter.
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