Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Danny Kaye

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Danny Kaye.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Danny Kaye was an American actor, comedian, singer and dancer. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.

American - Actor | January 18, 1913 - March 3, 1987

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I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Danny Kaye

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

Danny Kaye

There is a danger in democracy itself.

Danny Kaye

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

Danny Kaye

I am a wife-made man.

Danny Kaye

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Danny Kaye

I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.

Danny Kaye

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

Danny Kaye

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

Danny Kaye

When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.

Danny Kaye

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

Danny Kaye

I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

Danny Kaye

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

Danny Kaye

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

Danny Kaye

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

Danny Kaye

An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.

Danny Kaye

The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.

Danny Kaye

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

Danny Kaye

Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better.

Danny Kaye

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

Danny Kaye