Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Jackie Gleason

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Jackie Gleason.

Last updated on September 12, 2024.

John Herbert Gleason was an American actor, comedian, writer, composer, and conductor known affectionately as "The Great One." Developing a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his city-bus-driver Ralph Kramden character in the television series The Honeymooners. He also developed The Jackie Gleason Show, which maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s through 1970. After originating in New York City, filming moved to Miami Beach, Florida, in 1964 after Gleason took up permanent residence there.

American - Actor | February 26, 1916 - June 24, 1987

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

How sweet it is!

Jackie Gleason

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.

Jackie Gleason

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.

Jackie Gleason

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

I always knew what I was doing.

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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.

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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.

Jackie Gleason

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.

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason

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.

Jackie Gleason

Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

Jackie Gleason

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

Jackie Gleason