Ken Curtis Quotes

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance.

Ken Curtis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 2, 1916 - April 29, 1991

Topics

StartInsuranceWithoutOutJumping

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

Stanley Schmidt

GoodBetterPossibleAnythingNasty

I went to a hypnotist to learn how not to use drinking a pint before you go on as a way of giving you the confidence to just fly at it, irrespective of the fear. That's not a long-term strategy, when you do as many gigs as I do.

Stewart Lee

FearConfidenceFlyLearnStrategy

I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn't see my dad. And, now, this was the six years of being a teenager.

Trevor Noah

FatherLostNowYearsContactSee

You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

Robert Taft

YouKnowHimDislikeGetReally

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

Mary Lou Retton

ExperienceKnowOverPlanetBig

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

HappinessStrangersOwnGardensOur

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

David Sedaris

FunnyLoveSayingThinkSomeoneOut

Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.

Chris Meledandri

ThinkAnythingUniversalOwningPets

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

NatureLiveSeaGreatMenEat

No one will steal my son's American Dream.

Pete Gallego

SonAmerican DreamAmericanDream

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

Payne Stewart

ProudAmericanWhyTaxesPaySure

As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don't have to get injured, and I'm not faced with the day-in-day-out of what cops have to deal with, which is tragic and dangerous.

Titus Welliver

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