Fatty Arbuckle Quotes
How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can't tell how it happened!
Yallop, David A. The Day the Laughter Stopped. St. Martin's Press, 1976.
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd as well as with his nephew, Al St. John. He also mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s and one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood, signing a contract in 1920 with Paramount Pictures for $14,000 (equivalent to $179,000 in 2019).