Quote #25
What a creative genius - what an inventor... A guy like that, you just sit back and say, okay, I'll never get there!
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- I could tell you that those wonderful stories were 90% Buster's... I was often ashamed to take the money, much less the credit.
- I just want that one day, when I retire, that people still remember me like they remember Buster. I really want someone to respect me the w…
- The screen was just a white sheet. They had this flickering machine. That was the first time I saw this angel with a white face and these b…
- Watch his beautiful, compact body as it pirouettes or pretzels in tortured permutations or, even more elegantly, stands in repose as everyt…
- The older Keaton got, the more one could see eternity in his look.
- There are moments in many of his movies that are just poetic... In doing silent movies, no one had done this yet!
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- For me its Buster Keaton's face, with maybe his little hat on... It's being able to look into his eyes and see that sad face.