Lon Chaney: It's an art, but not magic.
Lon Chaney: Actors should pay more attention to their work and less attention to their fan mail.
Lon Chaney: My whole career has been devoted to keeping people from knowing me.
Lon Chaney: The trick in this business is to do something totally different from the rest so they’ll take notice of you.
Lon Chaney: I don’t feel comfortable being photographed as myself.
He never wanted his only son Creighton, better known as Lon Chaney Jr., to become an actor.
He wrote the preface to Cecil Holland's textbook of screen make-up and is the author of the chapter on screen make-up in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Wears a cap and dark glasses on the street, and, because few persons know what he really looks like, is rarely bothered by sightseers.
He hates interviews.
A popular joke of the era was "Don't step on it; it might be Lon Chaney!"
A child of deaf mute parents, Chaney became a master of pantomime and understanding people who were born different.
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