Limelight

Chaplin's Limelight

There is a scene in Limelight which Chaplin playing the part of Calvero, an aging performer encourages a young ballerina named Terry , who has lost all hope because her legs have ceome paralysed. He says to her:

Life is beautiful, magnificant thing! The trouble is you won't fight, you've given in , continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there's something just as inevitable as death, and that's life life life !

Think of the power that's in the universe moving the earth , growing the trees. And, that's tha same power within you !"

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