They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.
Buster KeatonI 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
Buster KeatonWhat really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
Buster KeatonNot 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 KeatonI`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 I`ve 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