Silent Movies Quotes
Silent Movies Quote of the day
I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.
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.
When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.
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 used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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.
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.
