Bill Ervin famous quotes

In college I took a class from a professor who changed my whole life. I can't really remember what his name was, or what the class was, or even which college it was, but I found that if you sit behind a really tall guy and kind of slouch down in your chair you can drink Scotch right from the bottle and not get caught.
-- Bill Ervin

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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.