Jamie Farr Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

  Jamie Farr

  Air

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

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• When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

  Jamie Farr

  Over You, Pay, Shows

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

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• I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

  Jamie Farr

  Hollywood, Doe, Broadway

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

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• Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

  Jamie Farr

  Hockey, Player, Wonderful

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• Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

  Jamie Farr

  Children, Athlete, Average

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

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• I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.

  Jamie Farr

  Mail, Kind, Shows

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

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• I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

  Jamie Farr

  Fall, Men, Judging

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

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• I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

  Jamie Farr

  Simple, Names, People

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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 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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