Quotes by Buster Keaton - Page 1

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Funny
Humorous
Long
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Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Monkeys
Silence
Silence Is
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I don't feel qualified to talk about my work.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Feels
Qualified
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No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Men
Genius
Hats
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Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.
Buster Keaton / Actor
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I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Done
Mad
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A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Comedian
Doe
Funny Things
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And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Heard
Heaven
Sides
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If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Old Time
Persons
Window
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What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Brother
Comedian
Goats
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Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
Buster Keaton / Actor
Film
Friendly
Subtitles
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All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?
Buster Keaton / Actor
Dope
Looks
Poor
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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 / Actor
Art
Lost
Natural
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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 / Actor
Kind
Scripts
Stuff
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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 / Actor
Anyway
Directions
Pictures
Script
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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'.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Actors
Long Ago
Thinking
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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 one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.
Buster Keaton / Actor
New York
Night
Stars
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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 everything but a corset...can`t stub my toe in this picture nor anything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without ever getting hit with anything!
Buster Keaton / Actor
Clothes
Play
Toes
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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 landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Dad
Cat
Fall
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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 the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Hard Work
Mean
Sorry
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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." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Beautiful
Believe
Hands
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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 it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I`d have material in two minutes, because I`d been doing it all my life.
Buster Keaton / Actor
Cutting
Tears
Two
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