Jackie Gleason Quotes

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge. 'I don`t like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges.

The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.

A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.

It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

One of these days... One of these days... Pow! Right in the kisser!

I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.

The worst thing you can do with money is save it.

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.

I always knew what I was doing.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

Some drink to forget, some drink to remember-me, I drink to get bagged.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world!

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.