Jamie Farr Quotes

• The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

  Jamie Farr

  Years, I Realized, Thirds

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• It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

  Jamie Farr

  Dream, Cities, Towns

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• The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

  Jamie Farr

  Stupid, Names, Actors

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

  Jamie Farr

  Beautiful, Nice, Cities

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

  Jamie Farr

  Beautiful, Years, Vancouver

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

  Jamie Farr

  Thinking, Talent, States

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• You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

  Jamie Farr

  Television, World, Littles

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• I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

  Jamie Farr

  Growing Up, Golf, Way

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

  Jamie Farr

  Captains, Ships, Courses

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• When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!

  Jamie Farr

  Country, Different, Boat

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

  Jamie Farr

  Names, People, Goes On

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• The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

  Jamie Farr

  Night, Behind The Scenes, Saturday

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

  Jamie Farr

  Games, Done, Gongs

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• If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.

  Jamie Farr

  Character, Play, Ensemble

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.

  Jamie Farr

  Eight, Trying, Together

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes.

  Jamie Farr

  People, Giving, Wonderful

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• One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

  Jamie Farr

  Temperature, Terrible, Terrible Things

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

  Jamie Farr

  Night, Want, Sometimes

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

  Jamie Farr

  Morning, Children, Phoenix

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• Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

  Jamie Farr

  Bills, Canada, Wonderful

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• Usually you'd do the summer scenes in the winter. So you're out there with a T-shirt and hope nobody sees your air that you're breathing out. We put ice cubes in our mouth to stop that from happening.

  Jamie Farr

  Summer, Winter, Air

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• I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

  Jamie Farr

  Book, People, Cleveland

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• I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

  Jamie Farr

  Roles, Broadway, Senses

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• I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

  Jamie Farr

  Firsts, Born

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

  Jamie Farr

  Television, Want, Sids

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