Jimmy Dean Quotes

#1. I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something ... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Jimmy Dean

#2. A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

Liz Sheridan

#3. The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.

Brian Henson

#4. I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.

Nikki Sixx

#5. Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.

Dennis Hopper

#6. I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

Tab Hunter

#7. Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

Mercedes McCambridge

#8. Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

John Lennon

#9. My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.

Dick Van Patten

#10. Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Jimmy Dean

#11. I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

Jimmy Dean

#12. You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Jimmy Dean

#13. There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Dean Martin

#14. A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

Jimmy Dean

#15. I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

#16. When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'

Jimmy Dean

#17. Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

Jimmy Dean

#18. Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Jimmy Dean

#19. I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

Jimmy Dean

#20. You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

Jimmy Dean

#21. I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

Jimmy Dean

#22. Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

Jimmy Dean

#23. I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Jimmy Dean

#24. I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

Jimmy Dean

#25. Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Jimmy Dean

#26. Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

Jimmy Dean

#27. I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

Jimmy Dean

#28. Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

Jimmy Dean

#29. 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

#30. Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.

Jimmy Dean

#31. God is bigger than people think.

Jimmy Dean

#32. Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

John Lennon