Jackie Mason Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
-
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
-
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
-
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
-
When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
-
You either are or you're not.
-
Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
-
In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
-
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
-
If you're famous, you're not free.
-
You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
-
Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
-
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
-
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
-
You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
-
We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
-
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
-
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
-
I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
-
I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
-
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
-
Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
