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Like everyone else, I like to ...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

I`ve had few dull moments [in ...

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 33 quotes

I gotta do some sad scenes. Wh...

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 33 quotes

All my life I have been happie...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

The first thing I did in the s...

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 33 quotes

If one more person tells me th...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

A comedian does funny things. ...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

The funny thing about our act ...

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 33 quotes

And if there is sweeter music ...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

They say pantomime's a lost ar...

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 33 quotes

I don't feel qualified to talk...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

Silence is of the gods; only m...

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

No man can be a genius in slap...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

I don't act, anyway. The stuff...

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 33 quotes

Down through the years my face...

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 33 quotes

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

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

I was mad at the time, or I wo...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

What really got my goat at MGM...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

Not long ago a friend asked me...

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 33 quotes

Charlie Chaplin and I would ha...

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

Buster Keaton 33 quotes

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