Charlie Chaplin's go to entree

 Grilled Lamb Kidneys. Bacon $25 [2021 price]

get it?

"They love me because they understand everything I do - they love you because they don't understand anything you do."
- Charlie Chaplin to Albert Einstein 

overcame adversity

"Time is the great author, for it has the perfect ending."
- Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977]

"You have to believe in yourself"

"Even when I was in an orphanage, when I was roaming the streets and couldn't find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."
- Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin's favourite Paris restaurant

Image source here.

Where Charlie Chaplin ate:

http://www.mussoandfrank.com/

words

"This is an emotional moment for me and words seem so futile, so feeble."

- Charlie Chaplin

autobiographical

"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."
- Charlie Chaplin

denial

Charlie Chaplin, 1915

"As late as 1931, Charlie Chaplin was still fighting the move to sound. In an interview that year, he proclaimed 'I give the talkies six months more.' Chaplin's powerful audience appeal and craftsmanship were such that he was able to make successful silent movies throughout the 1930s. However, even Charlie Chaplin couldn't hold out forever. Chaplin finally surrendered to spoken dialogue with The Great Dictator in 1940."

- Andy Grove illustrating an Inflection Point in Only the Paranoid Survive, 1997, p. 61

An earlier reference to Chaplin here.

An earlier reference to Grove here.

wild joy

“There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.”
- Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953] won three Pulitzer Prizes and was the first American Playwright to win the Nobel Prize. He is regarded as America's Shakespeare. He disowned his eighteen year old daughter Oona who married Charlie Chaplin who was thirty-six years her senior; they enjoyed a happy, enduring and constructive relationship.

An earlier reference to Chaplin on this blog here.

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

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.