Best Danny Kaye Quotes & Sayings

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye

There is a danger in democracy itself. — Danny Kaye

Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better. — Danny Kaye

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! — Danny Kaye

Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do. — Danny Kaye

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal. — Danny Kaye

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway. — Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it. — Danny Kaye

An unemployed jester is nobody's fool. — Danny Kaye

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left. — Danny Kaye

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way. — Danny Kaye

The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children. — Danny Kaye

The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before. — Danny Kaye

When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that. — Danny Kaye

To travel is to take a journey into yourself — Danny Kaye

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man. — Jason Mantzoukas

I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have. — Danny Kaye

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever. — Danny Kaye

I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them. — Danny Kaye

The actor Danny Kaye used to say, "Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can at it." I like that thought. More important, I try to live by it as much as I can. I — James Patterson

I am a wife-made man. — Danny Kaye

I hate Danny Kaye movies. — Dick Cavett

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF. — Danny Kaye

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall! — Danny Kaye

After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it. — Danny Kaye

In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye. — Karolyn Grimes

A jester unemployed is nobody's fool! — Danny Kaye

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society. — Danny Kaye

I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind. — George Carlin

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet. — Danny Kaye