Jimmy Durante Quotes

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Everybody wants ta get inta da act!

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

That's the conditions that prevail!

At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.

Start off each day with a song.

Everybody wants to get into the act!

It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone!