“If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.”
As "Calvero's Partner" in Limelight (1952)
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Famous Buster Keaton Quotes
“Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat.”
Interview in The Detroit News (4 December 1914)
Context: 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 is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.
Interview with Studs Terkel (1960)
“A picture without falls is as bad as Niagara in the same fix”
Interview in Picture-Play Magazine (December 1920) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton" http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor68.txt
“Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit”
Interview in Motion Picture (October 1921) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton" http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor68.txt
“Our hero came from Nowhere — he wasn't going Anywhere and he got kicked off Somewhere.”
The High Sign (1921, co-written with Edward F. Cline)
“We used to get arrested every other week — that is, the old man would get arrested.”
On his underage working in stage shows, in The Detroit News (4 December 1914)
