"Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney." "My whole career has been devoted to keeping people from knowing me." "When a makeup is as painful as that which I wore as Blizzard in 'The Penalty,' when I had my legs strapped up and couldn't bear it that way more than twenty minutes at a time - when I have to be a cripple, as in 'The Miracle Man,' or have to keep a certain attitude of body, as I did...in 'Shadows,' it sometimes takes a good deal of imagination to forget your physical sufferings. Yet, at that, the subconscious mind has a marvelous way of making you keep the right attitudes and make the right gestures when you are actually acting."