Silent Film Star Quotes

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.

I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.

I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.

Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.

I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keaton. I just love what he did. I love that mug.

Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.

I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

He [Charlie Chaplin] was always playing as if it were to the camera, if you've seen the live shots of him when he's going to an opening night or something like that. And the skills that he had were beyond my ability to throw together. You just couldn't really compete with him. He was too athletic at that.