Charlie Chaplin Quotes

Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

We are living in a very tough neighborhood where there is no mercy for the weak.

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.

You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.'

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

I'm loyal to a fault - even though I've been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it's also survival of the fittest out there.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work.

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.