Quotations

"All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them."

— Lon Chaney, Jr, American actor, born 1906

"Even a man who is pure in heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfs bane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright."

— Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor, born 1906

"I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of the streets may have the noblest ideals. Most of my roles since The Hunchback of Notre Dame, such as The Phantom of the Opera, He Who Gets Slapped, The Unholy Three, etc., have carried the theme of self-sacrifice or renunciation. These are the stories which I wish to do."

— Lon Chaney, American actor, born 1883

"Vanity is a personal parasite that must be fed until it is gorged and renders its victim a failure."

— Lon Chaney, American actor, born 1883

"We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved."

— Harry Chapin, American singer, born 1942

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

— Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889

"I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician."

— Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889

"That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head."

— Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

— Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

— Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

— Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889

"At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered."

— Tracy Chapman, American singer, born 1964

"I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives."

— Tracy Chapman, American singer, born 1964

"Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world see each other so that the world may come to being."

— Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit priest, born 1881