Quotes About Jackie Gleason

#1. It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester souls.

John Sayles

#2. Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

Jason Alexander

#3. I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

Frankie Avalon

#4. Ralph Kramden, as played by Jackie Gleason, was this big bumbling New York City bus driver who was kind of mean and crass and a little bit egotistical. But underneath it all, he was a big heart looking for a place to land I think.

George Saunders

#5. I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

Natalie Cole

#6. How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

Maureen O'Hara

#7. Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Chuck Jones

#8. I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Elvis Presley

#9. What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

Buddy Hackett

#10. Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

Phife Dawg

#11. In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

Ed O'Neill

#12. Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

Jackie Gleason

#13. I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

Jackie Gleason

#14. One of these days ... One of these days ... Pow! Right in the kisser!

Jackie Gleason

#15. Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.

Jackie Gleason

#16. Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.

Jackie Gleason

#17. I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

Jackie Gleason

#18. Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

Jackie Gleason

#19. Some drink to forget, some drink to remember-me, I drink to get bagged,

Jackie Gleason

#20. I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality ... So I knew that I had to create some characters.

Jackie Gleason

#21. The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

Jackie Gleason

#22. It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

Jackie Gleason

#23. The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

Jackie Gleason

#24. The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world.

Jackie Gleason

#25. I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Jackie Gleason

#26. I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

Jackie Gleason

#27. Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

Jackie Gleason

#28. If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Jackie Gleason

#29. I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

Jackie Gleason

#30. Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Jackie Gleason

#31. Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

Jackie Gleason

#32. Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

Jackie Gleason

#33. A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.

Jackie Gleason

#34. The worst thing you can do with money is save it.

Jackie Gleason

#35. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

Jackie Gleason

#36. I always knew what I was doing.

Jackie Gleason

#37. Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

Jackie Gleason

#38. I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.

Jackie Gleason

#39. Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.

Jackie Gleason