I stayed silent and still had better timing than most people with microphones. by Charlie Chaplin

Charlie, silence worked because your face knew where the joke lived.

Buster, timing does more with an eyebrow than most men do with a monologue.

Silence is useful. It makes the audience confess their own tension.

Alfred, you call it tension. We called it not wasting breath.

A microphone is dangerous in the hands of someone with nothing to say.

That explains cinema and half of leadership.

Hitchcock, that is not an argument. It is confidence looking for a costume.

Charlie, your argument keeps asking for respect it has not earned.

This is not a debate anymore. It is two reputations fighting over a chair.

Silence is not empty. It is where bad timing goes to be exposed.