American - Actor | August 10, 1928 - June 13, 2010
I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
Jimmy Dean
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Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.
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When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'
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You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
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My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.
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A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.
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I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.
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The other day, I said I should write a song, 'When Does the New Wear Off?' I think it would be a helluva title.
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I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.
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I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.
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Being a nice guy is detrimental to actors. When I first came to Hollywood, everyone was nice to me. Everyone thought I was a nice guy.
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I better know how to take care of myself.
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