Quote #18

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

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  1. The moment you give me a locomotive and things like that to play with, as a rule I find some way of getting laughs with it.
  2. He was by his whole style and nature so much the most deeply 'silent' of the silent comedians that even a smile was as deafeningly out of k…
  3. The camera can't catch my blushes!
  4. No other comedian could do as much with the dead-pan. He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things; a one tra…
  5. Schenck was supposed to be my producer but he never knew when or what I was shooting. He just turned me loose.
  6. Perhaps because 'dry' comedy is so much more rare and odd than 'dry' wit, there are people that never much cared for Keaton. Those who do c…
  7. In 1928, I made the worst mistake of my career. Against my better judgment I let Joe Schenck talk me into giving up my own studio to make p…
  8. The older Keaton got, the more one could see eternity in his look.

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