Top 36 Durante Quotes

#1. My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

Joseph Bologna

Durante Quotes #6287
#2. Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #10075
#3. 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

Durante Quotes #20851
#4. My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.

James Wolk

Durante Quotes #108990
#5. I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #130286
#6. Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #161702
#7. Be nice to people on your way up becuase you meet them on your way down

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #171514
#8. I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.

Lainie Kazan

Durante Quotes #232360
#9. So, Ray... you seem like a cool cat," she said. "Are you into alternative lifestyle parties?

Jason Medina

Durante Quotes #249676
#10. My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #274155
#11. If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #285570
#12. That's the conditions that prevail!

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #461203
#13. I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"

Tony Bennett

Durante Quotes #556646
#14. 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

Durante Quotes #736580
#15. DURANTE:Your children are rather mentally unstable. Particularly the girls. Must I put up with them all?

Billy London

Durante Quotes #856758
#16. What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

Buddy Hackett

Durante Quotes #937862
#17. 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

Durante Quotes #974593
#18. Now you know that you can't go wrong ... If you start each day with a song.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #981270
#19. DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians' bodies.

Billy London

Durante Quotes #1018192
#20. Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1042680
#21. Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1106574
#22. 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

Durante Quotes #1160580
#23. Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1174298
#24. 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

Durante Quotes #1188973
#25. My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1215257
#26. Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone!

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1307959
#27. Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1413587
#28. My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

Langston Hughes

Durante Quotes #1437349
#29. When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

James Wolk

Durante Quotes #1499995
#30. Start off each day with a song

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1500535
#31. 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

Durante Quotes #1536021
#32. Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1544550
#33. Make someone happy,
Make just one someone happy,
And you will be happy, too.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1619860
#34. Everybody wants to get into the act!

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1663171
#35. 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

Durante Quotes #1803100
#36. Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Jimmy Durante

Durante Quotes #1830231

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