Buster Keaton Quotes

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• Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
• Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been…
• Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here…
• What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
• They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.
• I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking…
• I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled…
• All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?
• The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got…
• If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
• A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.
• The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . .…
• And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.
• Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.
• Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
• I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.
• Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.
• I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind
• Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it…
• From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout act that ever was in the history of the theater,…

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