Charlie Chaplin Quotes

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

I think most actors like to be liked.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

If the public likes you, you're good.

They're just big in the eyes of the American public.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

There is no better feeling than having the approval and adulation of your fellow human beings.

It is hard on any man to see the eyes of everyone turn to another person as the eyes of the entire country are turned to [Theodore] Roosevelt.

There's a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it's never horrible. I'm not a soap villain who gets spat at.

For an actor, it is great to have fans.

The same people that boo you are the same people who will ask you for a picture an an autograph.

I think, whenever you're in the public eye, you're never going to be loved by everybody.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

The public makes a hit.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.