Durante Quotes & Sayings

Make someone happy,
Make just one someone happy,
And you will be happy, too. — Jimmy Durante

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

Everybody wants to get into the act! — Jimmy Durante

My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head. — Jimmy Durante

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 a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. — Jimmy Durante

That's the conditions that prevail! — 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