Buster Keaton Quotes

#1. I do not really think Charlie knows much more about politics, history, or economics than I do. Like myself he was hit by a make-up towel almost before he was out of diapers.

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

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

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

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

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#6. A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

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#7. 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.

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

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#9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#15. Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

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