Farr Quotes

#1. My entire view of the world has changed," he muttered as he went to the sink and began to scrub at the plates. "Sorcery, entities from the Outside, fish-men in my family tree, I can accept. Mr. Farr and Mr. Durfree as lovers crosses the line.

Jordan L. Hawk

#2. Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

William Butler Yeats

#3. Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n
From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view
On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea;
Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's
Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world
Of destined habitation.

John Milton

#4. As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.'

Tyler Farr

#5. My parents really did believe in the Golden Rule. They really did believe that all people should be treated equally. They had friends of every culture, we celebrated different holidays, but really, secretly behind it, they had no problem telling me who I couldn't marry.

Diane Farr

#6. The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

Jamie Farr

#7. 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

#8. I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

Jamie Farr

#9. 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.

Jamie Farr

#10. You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

Jamie Farr

#11. I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree.

Diane Farr

#12. I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

Jamie Farr

#13. 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.

Jamie Farr

#14. I'm a romantic at heart.

Tyler Farr

#15. Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.

Sam Farr

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

Jamie Farr

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

Jamie Farr

#18. If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.

Jamie Farr

#19. You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

Jamie Farr

#20. From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

Tyler Farr

#21. 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

#22. As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters

Tommy Farr

#23. Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

Jamie Farr

#24. 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

#25. I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

Diane Farr

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Jamie Farr

#30. I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

Jamie Farr

#31. After the mines, what is fighting? Fighting is child's play

Tommy Farr

#32. 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

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

Jamie Farr

#34. A guy walks into a bar, orders a drink, sees a girl that catches his eye. Asks her if she wants another, they fall for each other and end up lovers. They laugh, cry, hold on tight and make it work for a little while, then one night her taillights fade out into the dark. And a guy walks into a bar

Tyler Farr

#35. I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Tyler Farr

#36. When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!

Jamie Farr

#37. These big Internationals, they don't let you down

Nick Farr-Jones

#38. 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.

Jamie Farr

#39. I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard.

Tyler Farr

#40. 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

#41. Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

Sam Farr

#42. I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

Jamie Farr

#43. There's very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases ... gets me every time.

Tyler Farr

#44. There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change lives, and there's certain songs that you know that are not going to be that serious.

Tyler Farr

#45. I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

Jamie Farr

#46. Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it.

Tyler Farr

#47. 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.

Jamie Farr

#48. Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because it's scary.

Tyler Farr

#49. 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk' wasn't some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.

Tyler Farr

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

Jamie Farr

#51. I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free.

Tyler Farr

#52. 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

#53. The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

Tyler Farr

#54. I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

Jamie Farr

#55. I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

Tyler Farr

#56. 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

#57. Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.'

Diane Farr

#58. Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

Tommy Farr

#59. I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.

Diane Farr

#60. I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans ... to be vulnerable with them ... that's my job as an artist.

Tyler Farr

#61. If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

Sam Farr

#62. He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.

Nick Farr-Jones

#63. I'm just like my fans, and that's the way I like it.

Tyler Farr

#64. I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

Tyler Farr

#65. The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.

William Farr

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

Jamie Farr

#67. Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.

Tyler Farr

#68. To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

Sam Farr

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

Jamie Farr

#70. I did not work out while I was pregnant. I felt like I was having symptoms of a heart attack every time I worked out, so I enjoyed eating like a third grader and gained 55 pounds!

Diane Farr

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

Jamie Farr

#72. I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

Jamie Farr

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

Jamie Farr

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

Jamie Farr

#77. I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

Tyler Farr

#78. When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

Sam Farr

#79. I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.

Diane Farr

#80. 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

#81. 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

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

Jamie Farr

#83. I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

Jamie Farr