Top 75 Quotes About Dean Martin
#1. 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
#2. When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.
Joe Mantegna
#3. The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.
Dean Martin
#4. I don't drink anymore ... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.
Dean Martin
#5. Dad's final will was written and signed eleven days before he died. The original will it replaced disappeared and has never been found....I can't imagine him wanting to make such radical changes a few days before he died. I don't believe for one minute that he truly understood what was going on.
Deana Martin
#6. The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.
Justin Timberlake
#7. We try to find chemistry; we don't do a lot of situational baseball.
Dean Martin
#8. When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
Dean Martin
#10. It was a woman who drove me to drink. Come to think of it, I never did hang around to thank her for that. 'Hey lady! Do I look all blurry to you? 'Cause you look blurry to me!'
Dean Martin
#11. I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
Dean Martin
#12. I saw this train driver and said, 'I wanna go to Paris.' He said, 'Eurostar?' I said, 'Well I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin.' Mind you, at least the Eurostar's comfy. It's murder on the Orient Express isn't it?
Tim Vine
#13. In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody.
Dean Martin
#14. Return to me, for my heart wants you only. Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart.
Dean Martin
#15. When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.
Red Buttons
#16. Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#17. I was a sober as the next guy. The only problem is the next guy was Dean Martin
Red Skelton
#18. When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
Dean Martin
#19. Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?
Gayle Lynds
#20. I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
Stephen Colbert
#21. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He just let them sing whatever they wanted, and it became the best record company in America.
Tony Bennett
#22. His plaque reads, DEAN MARTIN, JUNE 7, 1917-DECEMBER 25, 1995, EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY SOMETIME.
Deana Martin
#23. Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting.
Dean Martin
#25. Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.
Michael Buble
#26. [Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach ... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.
Frank Sinatra
#27. Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything.
Tom Jones
#28. I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
Joe E. Lewis
#29. If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin
#30. Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.
Martin Sheen
#31. I wasn't the only one who wished he was around more.... The trade-off we had to be content with was that our dad was Dean Martin.
Deana Martin
#32. A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
Maureen McCormick
#33. I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I DO have the heart of a lion.
Burt Reynolds
#34. He's a man's man and I like that about him.
Deana Martin
#35. In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.
Peter Gallagher
#36. The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.
Dean Martin
#37. Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#38. ... there was a saying that Marlon Brando changed the way actors acted, James Dean changed the way people lived. I believe that.
Martin Sheen
#39. When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore.
Dean Martin
#40. I always watch Dean Martin's show ... just to see if he falls down.
James Stewart
#41. The world is the same you never change it, as sure as the stars shine above. Well, you're nobody til somebody loves you, so find yourself somebody to love.
Dean Martin
#42. I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.
Michael Spradlin
#43. There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
Dean Martin
#44. When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself.
Deana Martin
#45. I take the juice of two bottles of whisky.
Dean Martin
#46. Have you ever been to Colorado?"
I frowned. "Is that one of those square ones, in the middle?
James Patterson
#47. With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life.
Dean Martin
#48. I defy anyone to think of the name Dean Martin and not smile.
Now, that's amore.
Deana Martin
#49. My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
Dylan McDermott
#50. Dad once asked me, "Oh Deana, baby, who'd want to steal from me?"
Well, Dad, the answer is everyone.
Deana Martin
#51. You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Dean Martin
#52. So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".
Tommy Cooper
#53. I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster would be good in this part, and so on. With 'L.A. Confidential,' it was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if Dean Martin played the Kevin Spacey part?'
Brian Helgeland
#54. I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.
Dean Martin
#55. Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need ... when you have no talent.
Dean Martin
#56. Your love made it all worth waiting for some like you.
Dean Martin
#57. I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman.
Dean Martin
#58. Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.
Peter Gallagher
#59. Your lips and mine, two sips of wine, memories are made of this.
Dean Martin
#60. Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on the Dean Martin Show and I'm very proud to call him a friend!
Lainie Kazan
#61. In order to share intimate feelings, you have to have intimate feelings.
Dean Martin
#62. If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let'em. That's how I got here you know I drink because my body craves, needs alcohol. I don't drink, my body's a drunk.
Dean Martin
#63. Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler.
Dean Martin
#64. Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.
Dean Martin
#65. The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.
Ruth Buzzi
#66. Somewhere there's a someone for me. Though I may be lonely now, I'll see it through somehow, to somebody's heart I know I hold the key.
Dean Martin
#67. The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.
Dean Martin
#68. Was he a good father?"
To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No," I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man."
Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.
Deana Martin
#69. Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.
Dean Martin
#70. I always refer back to the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Rat Pack. Back when everyone wore a suit because that's what it was to be an entertainer. You were stylish and you were fly, and it was an effortless fly.
Ne-Yo
#71. I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.
Dean Martin
#72. If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.
Dean Martin
#73. The point is, Dean was not and is not nor will he ever be the ideal husband... he gives the minimum amount.
Deana Martin
#74. I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
Dean Martin
#75. I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy
Dean Martin
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