38 Quotes by Jackie Gleason

I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.

Some drink to forget, some drink to remember-me, I drink to get bagged,

The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.