Jamie Farr Quotes

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

They sometimes beat things into the ground. They don't know when to get out of a situation. They think the more you pound the nail into the ground, the funnier it gets. That's not necessarily true.

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like MASH, then you're in trouble.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, My name is Humphrey, somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes.

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

Usually you'd do the summer scenes in the winter. So you're out there with a T-shirt and hope nobody sees your air that you're breathing out. We put ice cubes in our mouth to stop that from happening.