Durante Quotes & Sayings
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What did Napolean do for relaxation? He read a book. What did Lincoln do for relaxation? He read a book. What does Congress do for relaxation? They book a red. — Jimmy Durante
When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment. — James Wolk
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place. — Jimmy Durante
Did you ever get the feeling that you wanted to go,
But still had the feeling that you wanted to stay,
You knew it was right, wasn't wrong.
Still you knew you wouldn't be very long.
Go or stay, stay or go,
Start to go again and change your mind again.
It's hard to have the feeling that you wanted to go,
But still have the feeling that you wanted to stay.
Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, si, do.
I'll go.
I'll stay. — Jimmy Durante
Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down. — Jimmy Durante
So, Ray... you seem like a cool cat," she said. "Are you into alternative lifestyle parties? — Jason Medina
I don't like working with people I don't know. (Randy)
Hmmm, let's see ... I cried when Ole Yeller died, but I was young back then. I have a scar on my knee from when Willie Durante knocked me off my bike when I was seven. I beat the shit out of him later, then took his bike and sold it at a pawnshop. Oh, and my favorite color is pink ... it's really soothing. (Steele) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
All of us have schnozzles ... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us. — Jimmy Durante
I hate music, especially when it's played. — Jimmy Durante
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did. — Jimmy Durante
My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong. — Langston Hughes
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'! — Jimmy Durante
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics. — Buddy Hackett
Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone. — Jimmy Durante
DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians' bodies. — Billy London
Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once. — Jimmy Durante
Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed! — Jimmy Durante
Start off each day with a song — Jimmy Durante
My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens. — Joseph Bologna
I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland. — Lainie Kazan
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
Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down. — Jimmy Durante
And to think, she'd once had the hots for him, back in the old days (six months ago) when razor-thin men with noses like Durante and an encyclopaedic knowledge of de Niro movies had really been her style. Now she saw him for what he was, flotsam from a lost ship of hope. Still a pill-freak, still a theoretical bisexual, still devoted to early Polanski movies and symbolic pacifism. — Clive Barker
I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!" — Tony Bennett
I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut. — Jimmy Durante
Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone! — Jimmy Durante
At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet. — Jimmy Durante
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. — Jimmy Durante
If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. — Jimmy Durante
Be nice to people on your way up becuase you meet them on your way down — Jimmy Durante
DURANTE:Your children are rather mentally unstable. Particularly the girls. Must I put up with them all? — Billy London
Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth. — Jimmy Durante
Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is. — Jimmy Durante
It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too. — Jimmy Durante
Now you know that you can't go wrong ... If you start each day with a song. — Jimmy Durante