Jamie Farr Quotes:

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.

Topics: Television, Want, Sids, Sketch Comedy

I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.

Topics: Years, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Topics: Hockey, Player, Wonderful, Hockey Player, Great Hockey

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Hollywood, Doe, Broadway

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Topics: Bills, Canada, Wonderful

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Thinking, Air, Trying

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

Topics: Over You, Pay, Shows, Getting Over You

I certainly dont have any airs about myself.

Topics: Air

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

Topics: Beautiful, Nice, Cities

The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

Topics: Years, I Realized, Thirds

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.

Topics: Dream, Cities, Towns

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Stupid, Names, Actors

You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Beautiful, Nice, Cities, Montreal, Cuban Cigars

Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Beautiful, Years, Vancouver, Calgary

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

Topics: Thinking, Talent, States

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.

Topics: Television, World, Littles

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.

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Growing Up, Golf, Way, Golf Tournaments

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.

Topics: Captains, Ships, Courses

When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Country, Different, Boat, Love Boat

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.

Topics: Names, People, Goes On

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Night, Behind The Scenes, Saturday, Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night

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

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Makeup, Play, Black

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.

Topics: Reading, Tired, Substance, Coming Out Of The Closet

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.

Topics: People, Giving, Wonderful

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Temperature, Terrible, Terrible Things

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

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Night, Want, Sometimes, Saturday Night Live

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.

Topics: Cousin, Uncles, Each Day

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.

Topics: Years, Friendship Over, Acquaintance

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.

Topics: Summer, Winter, Air

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

Topics: Phones, Tvs, Broadway

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!

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Summer, Silly, Winter, Fur Coats

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.

Topics: Morning, Children, Phoenix, Lebanese, Toledo

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

Topics: Orlando, Durham, Raleigh

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

Topics: Game Shows, Gongs

I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

source: - Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

Topics: Happiest Man