All Buster Keaton Quotes
- Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles? Chaplin
- 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… Actor
- 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… Broadway
- What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes. Brother
- 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. Art
- 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… Always Expected
- 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… Act
- All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya? All
- 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… All
- If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window. Jump
- A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny. Comedian
- The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . .… Able
- And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it. Heard
- Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd. Crowd
- Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot. Close
- I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing. Inspirational
- Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter. 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 Act
- 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… Agee
- 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,… Acrobatics
- I'm so sorry I fell down. Comedy
- Life is too serious to do farce comedy. Comedy
- No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat. Comedy
- Well, I'd say that the minute sound came in, it was everybody talking their heads off and going for dialogue laughs. All your writers did… All