Danny Kaye famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Life
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
-- Danny Kaye

#Travel #Journey
Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.
-- Danny Kaye

#Children #Laughing #Different
I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
-- Danny Kaye

#Stupid #Way #Fool
Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.
-- Danny Kaye

#Love #Heart #Circles
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
-- Danny Kaye

#Poison #Palaces #Chalice
I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.
-- Danny Kaye

#Done #Life Is #Feels
An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.
-- Danny Kaye

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

#Private Life
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

#Film #Realistic #Explicit
You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
-- Danny Kaye

#Night #Broadway #Clubs
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

#Night #Secret #Theatre
I am a wife-made man.
-- Danny Kaye

#Family #Men #Wife
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
The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.
-- Danny Kaye

#Country #Children #Natural
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

#Beautiful #Country #Powerful
I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.
-- Danny Kaye

#Play #Want #Entertainers
A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.
-- Danny Kaye

#Fool #Unemployed #Jester
I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.
-- Danny Kaye

#Wanted #Entertainers

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