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Buster Keaton Biography

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor–director in the history of the movies". His career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his artistic independence when he was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and he descended into alcoholism, ruining his family life. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career to a degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award.

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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.

Art, Lost, Natural

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

Gods, Monkeys, Silence, Silence Is

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

Heard, Heaven, Music, Sides, Sweeter

Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.

Crowd, Crowds, Everyone, Happy, Like

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.

Broadway, Lived, New York, Night, Stars

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

Flat, Genius, Hats, Man, Men

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Jump, Old, Old Time, Persons, Times, Window

Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask. " On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful. " I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.

Archetype, Beautiful, Believe, Down, Early, Hands

I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.

Done, Mad, Thing, Time

I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a corset. . . can`t stub my toe in this picture nor anything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without ever getting hit with anything!

Clothes, Everything, Kippie, Play, Round, Toes

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Contest, Feature, Film, Friendly, Subtitles

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?

Dope, Life, Looks, Poor

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 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.

Earn, Hard Work, Mean, Sad, Saying, Sorry