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 so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, 'Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd'.
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
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
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
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…
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
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."…
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
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…
Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter. - Buster Keaton
Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.
All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya? - Buster Keaton
All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?
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
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
No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat. - Buster Keaton
No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
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
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.
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