„Komik robi śmieszne rzeczy, dobry komik czyni rzeczy śmiesznymi.”
Źródło: Sławne cytaty z filmu, "Świat na dłoni Extra", nr 1/2016, s. 98.
Buster Keaton, właśc. Joseph Francis Keaton – amerykański aktor filmowy; reżyser, scenarzysta i komik, zwany „człowiekiem o kamiennej twarzy” i obok Charliego Chaplina najbardziej znany komik kina niemego. Najbardziej znany jako reżyser, scenarzysta i odtwórca głównej roli w komedii Generał.
„Komik robi śmieszne rzeczy, dobry komik czyni rzeczy śmiesznymi.”
Źródło: Sławne cytaty z filmu, "Świat na dłoni Extra", nr 1/2016, s. 98.
“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)
“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)
Kontekst: 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.
“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)