Quotes About Al Jolson

#1. Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

Isaac Asimov

#2. I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

Al Jolson

#3. Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

Laozi

#4. A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.

Al Jolson

#5. California, here I come, right back where I started from.

Al Jolson

#6. Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.

Stella Gibbons

#7. Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

Desi Arnaz

#8. Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

Amber Heard

#9. Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. He dreamed in ticker tape and calliope colors.

Bruce Olds

#11. Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state
and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Faye Wattleton

#12. Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp

Gabrielle Zevin

#13. I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again - I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.

Al Jolson

#14. I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

Al Jolson

#15. Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

Walter Cunningham

#16. After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Al Jolson

#17. Many of us have no appetite for spiritual things because we are absorbed in the sinful pleasures of this world. We have been eating too many of the devil's delicacies.

Billy Graham

#18. To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#19. Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

John Eliot

#20. What people acquire with a ticket is more than a chance to win; it is the right to dream pleasantly of winning.

Daniel Kahneman

#21. We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

Elizabeth Janeway

#22. He gave them descriptive names that wouldn't scare people. It wouldn't do to call them Nemesis or Thor or Grond. So instead it was Potatohead, Mr. Spinny, Acorn, Peach Pit, Scoop, Big Boy, and Kidney Bean.

Neal Stephenson

#23. When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!

Jack Benny

#24. forbearance; and though Mrs. Phillips, as well

Jane Austen

#25. Initially, I used to cart coke from the West Melbourne Gasworks -12 tonne a day, 150-pound sacks. I'd come home looking like Al Jolson at the end of the day - white teeth, black face ... A good hard day's work.

Lindsay Fox