85 Quotes by Jamie Farr

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.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they’re really not that good.

They sometimes beat things into the ground. They don’t know when to get out of a situation. They think the more you pound the nail into the ground, the funnier it gets. That’s not necessarily true.

I helped set The Gong Show. I’ve done so many game shows. I’ve helped create game shows.

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.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn’t necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

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.

You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can’t always spend as much time as you would like.

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.