Top 36 Durante Quotes
#1. My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.
Joseph Bologna
#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
#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
#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
#6. Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
Jimmy Durante
#7. Be nice to people on your way up becuase you meet them on your way down
Jimmy Durante
#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
#9. So, Ray... you seem like a cool cat," she said. "Are you into alternative lifestyle parties?
Jason Medina
#10. My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante
#11. If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.
Jimmy Durante
#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
#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
#15. DURANTE:Your children are rather mentally unstable. Particularly the girls. Must I put up with them all?
Billy London
#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
#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
#18. Now you know that you can't go wrong ... If you start each day with a song.
Jimmy Durante
#19. DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians' bodies.
Billy London
#20. Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
Jimmy Durante
#21. Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.
Jimmy Durante
#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
#23. Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.
Jimmy Durante
#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
#25. My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.
Jimmy Durante
#26. Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone!
Jimmy Durante
#27. Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.
Jimmy Durante
#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
#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
#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
#32. Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.
Jimmy Durante
#33. Make someone happy,
Make just one someone happy,
And you will be happy, too.
Jimmy Durante
#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
#36. Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.
Jimmy Durante
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