When Sir Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977] was very young, his mother became mentally ill and was admitted to the Cane Hill Asylum at Coulsdon, a London, England borough of Croydon; his insolvent, feckless, alcoholic, missing, vaudevillian father died at 37, when Charlie was 12.
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
"I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth."
"By simple common sense, I don't believe in God."
His 1964 autobiography, regarded by some as one of the 20th century's greatest, available here.
