Jamie Farr Quotations

They sometimes beat things into the ground. They don't know when to get out of a situation. They think the more you pound the nail into the ground, the funnier it gets. That's not necessarily true.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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