Top 12 Buster Keaton Quotes About Life (COMEDY)

Top 10 Most Famous Buster Keaton Quotes (BEST)

“I’ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years Ive lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.”
Buster Keaton

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. — 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.

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

“Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, ‘Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd’.
Buster Keaton

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

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it. — And if there is sweeter **music** this side of heaven I haven’t heard it.

“Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out – nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.”
Buster Keaton