Slappy White quotes

Slappy White quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.”
-- Slappy White

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I asked my date what she wanted to drink. She said, 'Oh, I guess I'll have Champagne.' I said, 'Guess again.'”
-- Slappy White

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“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”
“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

Source : New Yorker, 14 May 1960
“That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?”
“I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.”
“If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.”
“Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”
“I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.”
“When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.”
“I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.”
“The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".”

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