Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Jamie Farr
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.
Before 'M*A*SH*,' people in the industry didn't know what to do with this guy with the big nose.
You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.
As a kid, I had to be funny.
I'm after the bucks because bucks give you the power, power gives you the freedom, and freedom lets you send money home to your mother.
I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.
You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'
It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.
The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.
I can't imagine that I will ever be on anything like 'M*A*S*H' again.
Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'
The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.
Never stay with friends or relatives. You end up living on their schedules.
I was thrilled as a kid to point out my sister as she danced and sang on the stage, and she was pretty good artistically. She was a great inspiration to me. She was the one who sort of led me into show business.
It's amazing how people will treat you better when you're 'somebody.' The minute clerks in a store recognize me, they suddenly rush to take care of me. That irritates me.
I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.
I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.
I would like to do a nice comedy/drama feature with a good part, but nobody's asked me to do a film. Maybe it's because they don't know what to do with a guy in a dress.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
The dresses I wore are in the Smithsonian now.
When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.
I certainly don't have any airs about myself.
It's a difficult thing to overcome, but I've been quite fortunate. I haven't been out of work, literally, since 'M*A*S*H' went out of production.
I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.
Usually you'd do the summer scenes in the winter. So you're out there with a T-shirt and hope nobody sees your air that you're breathing out. We put ice cubes in our mouth to stop that from happening.
It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.
I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.
I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.
You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...
You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.
I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.
The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.
There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!
I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.
I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.
Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.
There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.
The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.
If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.
I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.
When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.
I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.
I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.
They sometimes beat things into the ground. They don't know when to get out of a situation. They think it's going to be funny....the more you pound the nail into the ground the funnier it gets and that's not necessarily true.
I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.
Sometimes you get a call and an uncle passed away that you really liked, or a cousin or somebody else. So each day becomes a little more precious then the day that preceded it.
If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.
The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.
I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.
Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.
I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.
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