C.P. Sennett Quotes

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

Beloved King of Comedy.

If nothing changes then nothing changes.

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

Don't confuse efforts with results....