Best Silent Movies Quotes

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

When I’m actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it’s a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that’s going on from the images because the images are so strong.

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

I’m not an American actor. I’m a French actor. I’ll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I’d like to!

Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they’d be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I’d grab a bottle and start swingin’ out on ‘Squeeze Me’ or ‘Royal Garden Blues’. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn’t stop me!

I used to watch movies – silent movies – and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

As an actor I’m part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There’s always the little guy who’s the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach – Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did – he was a giant.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

Right now I’m the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there’s not going to be any other silent movies.

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.