Charles Coburn Quotes
-
If it would sell tickets, I'd stand on my head in the middle of Times Square at noon.
-
The dirtiest mind in the world is the mind of a censor.
-
[a story he told fans each year at the Delaware County (OH) Fair Little Brown Jug Stakes for pacers, which as a devoted harness-racing fan he attended annually] I grew up in the city not far from a burlesque theater and my father cautioned me not to go there because I might see something I shouldn't see. So, of course, when I got old enough I went right in, and sure enough I saw something I shouldn't - my father!
-
There are two kinds of people - those who don't do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven't done, and those who are too busy to write about it because they're out doing it!
-
That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.