Jamie Farr Quotes
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I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.
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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.
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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!
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I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.
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One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.
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I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.
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I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.
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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.
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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.
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I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
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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.
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When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!
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I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.
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The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.
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I certainly don't have any airs about myself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
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I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.
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I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
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You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...
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Sometimes you get a call and an uncle passed away that you really liked, or a cousin or somebody else. So each day becomes a little more precious then the day that preceded it.
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Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.
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Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.
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Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
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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.
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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.
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I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.
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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.
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