Buster Keaton

Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.

— Buster Keaton

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

— Buster Keaton

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions…

— Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

— Buster Keaton

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?

— Buster Keaton

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

— Buster Keaton

The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the…

— Buster Keaton

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

— Buster Keaton

I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.

— Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

— Buster Keaton

Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a…

— Buster Keaton

I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by…

— Buster Keaton

I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all…

— Buster Keaton

I don't feel qualified to talk about my work.

— Buster Keaton

“I was standing on the deck looking down at a gang of stevedores working on the dock thirty feet below. One of…

— Buster Keaton

Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor.…

— Buster Keaton

I'm so sorry I fell down.

— Buster Keaton

“I do not really think Charlie knows much more about politics, history, or economics than I do. Like myself he was hit…

— Buster Keaton

Well, I'd say that the minute sound came in, it was everybody talking their heads off and going for dialogue laughs. All…

— Buster Keaton

From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout act that ever was in the history…

— Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

— Buster Keaton

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

— Buster Keaton

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.

— Buster Keaton

Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face,…

— Buster Keaton

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

— Buster Keaton