"I am back foremost"

With Jascha Heifetz, c. 1920

Violinist Jascha Heifetz was among the guests one evening at Charlie's house. "Everyone was clamorous to have Heifetz play violin. He picked up Chaplin's violin and started to play and he was astounded, as were the rest of the company, to find nothing but insane discordance issue from the strings.
Chaplin smiled, took his fiddle from Heifetz's hands and played a bit of Bach with his left hand. All the strings were on backward.
'You see,' said Chaplin, 'I am being made inside out and upside-down. When I turn my back on you in the screen you are looking at something as expressive as a face. I am back foremost.'"*

*Ben De Casseres, "The Hamlet-Like Nature Of Charlie Chaplin," New York Times Book Review, Dec. 12th, 1920