Jamie Farr Quotes - Page 2

• I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.

  Jamie Farr

  Years, Comedy, Enjoyed

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• Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

  Jamie Farr

  Makeup, Play, Black

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

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• I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

  Jamie Farr

  Reading, Tired, Substance

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• I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.

  Jamie Farr

  Night, Thinking, Good Times

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• You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

  Jamie Farr

  Years, Friendship Over, Acquaintance

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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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• There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!

  Jamie Farr

  Summer, Silly, Winter

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

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• The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

  Jamie Farr

  Phones, Tvs, Broadway

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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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• Sometimes you get a call and an uncle passed away that you really liked, or a cousin or somebody else. So each day becomes a little more precious then the day that preceded it.

  Jamie Farr

  Cousin, Uncles, Each Day

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They sometimes beat things into the ground. They don't know when to get out of a situation. They think it's going to be funny....the more you pound the nail into the ground the funnier it gets and that's not necessarily true.

  Jamie Farr

  Thinking, Nails, Pounds

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

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