4 Buster Keaton Quotes on Acting

Buster Keaton quotes on acting

20. 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 track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood.

22. The older Keaton got, the more one could see eternity in his look.

29. 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.

32. With his dark, sensitive looks, his face in repose evoking years of quiet contemplation, he resembled a mixture of Buddhist monk and fashion model. He offered the ideal face and acting style for motion pictures, proving less is more. He would become a master of knowing when to do nothing at all.