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 or not, "a tragic mask."…

- Buster Keaton

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 up in kippie clothes-wear everythi…

- Buster Keaton

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 into the cutting room, what you did to…

- Buster Keaton

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

- 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

The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landi…

- Buster Keaton

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

- 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 of any kind

- Buster Keaton

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

- Buster Keaton