Jimmy Durante Quotes

• My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.

  Jimmy Durante

  Portraiture, Noses, Bigs

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• My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

  Jimmy Durante

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Everybody wants ta get inta da act!

  Jimmy Durante

  Want

  "Billboard" Magazine, (p. 126), April 23, 1949.

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  Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

  Jimmy Durante

  Comedian, Radio, Developing

  Information Week, Issues 699-702, (p. 497), 1998.

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• Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

  Jimmy Durante

  Funny, Success, Nice

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  Make someone happy,
  Make just one someone happy,
  And you will be happy, too.

  Jimmy Durante

  Make Someone Happy, Just One

  Song: Make Someone Happy

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• Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.

  Jimmy Durante

  Silence, Teeth, Mouths

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• It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

  Jimmy Durante

  Laughter, Long, Laughing

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• All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

  Jimmy Durante

  Character, Laughing, Mind

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  Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.

  Jimmy Durante

  Leave Me Alone, Hell

  "Low Man On A Totem Pole" by Harry Allen Smith, (p. 185), 1941.

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• Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

  Jimmy Durante

  Inspirational, Home, Men

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• Now you know that you can't go wrong... If you start each day with a song.

  Jimmy Durante

  Song, Each Day, Knows

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• I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

  Jimmy Durante

  Hurt, Nuts, Mind

  "Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante". Book by Gene Fowler, 1951.

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• Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

  Jimmy Durante

  Animal, Men, Humanity

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• What did Napolean do for relaxation? He read a book. What did Lincoln do for relaxation? He read a book. What does Congress do for relaxation? They book a red.

  Jimmy Durante

  Book, Relaxation, Doe

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• What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!

  Jimmy Durante

  Depression, Holes, Dictionary

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• Start off each day with a song.

  Jimmy Durante

  Song, Each Day

  "Song: 'Start Off Each Day With A Song'". 1966.

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• At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.

  Jimmy Durante

  Morning, Children, Couple

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• Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!

  Jimmy Durante

  Motivation, Looks, Months

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• Everybody wants to get into the act!

  Jimmy Durante

  Want, Bitterness, Gumdrops

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• Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone!

  Jimmy Durante

  People, Democracy, Ems

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• To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

  Jimmy Durante

  Funny, Music, Orchestra

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• That's the conditions that prevail!

  Jimmy Durante

  Conditions

  "Current Biography: Who's News and Why". Book by Anna Rothe (p. 168), 1946.

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• I hate music, especially when it's played.

  Jimmy Durante

  Funny, Music, Hate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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