More from Buster Keaton

  1. No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
  2. 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 …
  3. Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
  4. A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.
  5. If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
  6. Because of the way I looked on the stage and screen, the public naturally assumed I felt hopeless and unloved in my personal life. Nothing …
  7. 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 i…
  8. 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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