37 Quotes by Buster Keaton

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

When sound came, we found this out--we found this out from our own pictures--that sound didn't bother us at all. There was only one thing I wanted at all times, and insisted on: that you go ahead and talk in the most natural way, in your situations. Don't give me puns. Don't give me jokes. No wisecracks.

We didn't stick to any format. We would just get an idea, and once you started on the idea it would lend itself to gags and natural trouble of any kind. There was no format.

Well, I'd say that the minute sound came in, it was everybody talking their heads off and going for dialogue laughs. All your writers did the same thing. Once that started, it took years to ever get anybody even to touch that old type of material again

I've simply been brought up being knocked down.