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Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat.

— Buster Keaton

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

Interview with Studs Terkel (1960)

We used to get arrested every other week — that is, the old man would get arrested.

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

A picture without falls is as bad as Niagara in the same fix.

Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit.

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