Buster Keaton Quotes

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

Buster Keaton

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• I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.

  

  Xavi
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sympathy
  • Without
  • Funeral

• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
  • Should
  • University

• I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Way

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Play
  • Like
  • Victim

• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Proud

• Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Day

• Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Money
  • Together
  • Magic

• The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down? That's good. All these things are good. It has to be a little bit of a struggle.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Important
  • Writing

• I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Small
  • Child
  • Little Things

• To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Truth
  • House
  • Inspiration

• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Art
  • She
  • True

• The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Real
  • May
  • Imagination

• I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • God
  • Believing
  • Deity

• I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

  

  Craig Kilborn
  • May
  • Angry
  • Bitter

• Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Exercise

• Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Kind

• My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.

  

  Milo Ventimiglia
  • People
  • Character
  • Father

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

  

  Buster Keaton