Limelight (1952 film)

"What do you want meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Desire is the theme of all life! It makes a rose want to be a rose and want to grow like that. And a rock want to contain itself and remain like that."

"There's something about working the streets I like. It's the tramp in me I suppose."

"That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else."

"Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination... and a little dough."

"Time is the great author. Always writes the perfect ending."

"I'm through clowning. Life isn't a gag anymore. I can't see the joke. From now on, I'm a retired humorist."

"As a man gets on in years he wants to live deeply. A feeling of sad dignity comes upon him, and that's fatal for a comic. It affected my work. I lost contact with the audience, couldn't warm up to them."

"It will move you to love, laughter and tears."

"The masterpiece of laughter and tears from the master of comedy!"

"Charles Chaplin - Calvero"

"Claire Bloom - Thereza "Terry" Embrose"

"Nigel Bruce - Postant"

"Buster Keaton - Calvero's partner"

"Sydney Chaplin - Ernest Neville"

"Norman Lloyd - Bodalink"