Gabe Kaplan Quotes

United States, Television Presenter
March 31, 1945

Gabriel Weston Kaplan (born March 31, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, poker commentator, and professional poker player. Kaplan was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his role as Gabe Kotter in the 1970s sitcom, Welcome Back, Kotter. He later became known as a poker player, and as co-host and joint commentator for the series High Stakes Poker on GSN.

Also known as Poker Player, Television Actor, Film Actor

I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

Gabe Kaplan
- Done
- Want
- Star
Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

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- Comedy
- Year
- Corporate

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

Gabe Kaplan
- Miss
- Type
- Maybe
When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

Gabe Kaplan
- Lost
- First
- Vegas
I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.

Gabe Kaplan
- People
- Believe
- Think
I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

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- Business
- City
- Successful
In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

Gabe Kaplan
- Business
- You
- End