Paul Winchell Quotes

#1. I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

Jim Cummings

#2. It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.

Paul Winchell

#3. Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.

Paul Winchell

#4. Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices.

Paul Winchell

#5. Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Vidal Sassoon

#6. Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.

Mike Tyson

#7. Ventriloquism today is in a slump.

Paul Winchell

#8. On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.

Paul Winchell

#9. The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character.

Margery Fish

#10. So you're suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I'm sure the Clave will be
ecstatic."
"They'll just say you're mad," said Jessamine. "They already think it, so what's the difference, really?

Cassandra Clare

#11. Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift

#12. I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.

Paul Winchell

#13. The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

J. Norman Collie

#14. I've got a problem with my legs, they just can't walk past a chippy.

Ricky Hatton