Charles Coburn Quotes

United States, Actor
June 19, 1877 – August, 30, 1961.

Charles Douville Coburn was an American film and theatre actor. Best known for his work in comedies, Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943's The More the Merrier.

If it would sell tickets, I'd stand on my head in the middle of Times Square at noon.

Charles Coburn
- Head
- Stand
- Sell
The dirtiest mind in the world is the mind of a censor.

Charles Coburn
- Mind
- Censor
- Dirtiest

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!

Charles Coburn
- People
- Want
- To Do
[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!

Charles Coburn
- Father
- See
- Should Not
That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.

Charles Coburn
- Need
- Rich
- Anything