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.

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

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

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

Housewives spend more money than their husbands make so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.

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

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.

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

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

I am a wife-made man.

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

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