Quotes by Scatman Crothers - Page 1

Oh, sure, I love boxing.
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Boxing
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Spiritually, I'm Jewish.
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Jewish
Spiritually
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I'm a connoisseur of sausage.
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Connoisseur
Sausage
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I was the first black man on television.
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Television
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I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.
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Preacher
Sinner
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Call me the Scatman. I do quite a bit of scattin'.
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Quite A Bit
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You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.
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Wicked
Dressed
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You know, I'd forget words and start just singing noises.
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Noises
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Color don't mean nothin'. 'Cause we're all God's children.
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Nothin
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I've been an actor all of my life, but not professionally.
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Life My Life Actor
Professionally
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You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.
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Overnight Success
Overnight
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I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.
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Flashy
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We are all stars in this galaxy. All of us. No one's greater than the other.
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Galaxy
Greater
Stars
Other
Than
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I love people. You've gotta keep that love in your heart for your fellow man.
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Fellow Man
Love Heart Man
Fellow
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I admit, music is my first love. I enjoy acting but I couldn't give up my music.
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First Love
Love Music Acting
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The Shining is my fourth picture with Jack Nicholson, or as he says, our fourth 'classic.'
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Fourth
Nicholson
Shining
Jack
Jack Nicholson
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Jack Nicholson and I have been friends ever since we met while doing 'The King of Marvin Gardens.'
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Nicholson
Gardens
Jack
Jack Nicholson
Met
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I think it's so foolish for people to try and hide their age. I don't understand that. You should be happy and glad to be living.
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Foolish
Glad
Hide
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Can you imagine what five or 10 dollars was like in 1925? In those days, you could get room and board for $1.50 a week. Room and board!
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Board
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I went to the driving range and hit a couple of good shots and I was hooked. Now I have six putters, including one engraved with my name.
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Engraved
Hooked
Range
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Now that I'm older, I couldn't do music full-time. You don't get home until two or three a.m. Acting, you can be at home with your family.
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Family Home Music
Full-Time
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I always kept busy. If the music business got bad I'd get me a job doin' somethin' else. Bellhop. Porter. Anything to make an honest living.
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Music Business
Doin
Porter
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The first paid gig? It was back home in Terre Haute, Indiana, back in 1925, '26, when I was going to high school and working in a speakeasy.
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Indiana
Gig
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We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers doing the same beat.
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Dixie
Blues
Sisters
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Age ain't nothing but a figure. Let's go out there and play some kick the can. It's all in the mind; let's become kids. That's been my philosophy of life anyhow, man.
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Life Age Man
Anyhow
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Guy asked me, 'Scat, what is there left for you to do?' And I said, 'A Broadway play, man!' Can you dig it? That's the only thing I never done. I'd like to say I had.
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Broadway
Done Man Me
Man Done Me
Dig
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It's a tough business, yes it is. But I've been fortunate. The only real hard times I had was when I was with Montague's Kentucky Serenades. We really had it tough then.
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Hard Times
Tough Business
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I came out with my five-piece group and opened at Billy Burke's Swing Oar. This was when Hollywood was really jumpin'. This was when Frankie Laine used to come in and ask if he could sing a number.
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Oar
Billy
Frankie
Opened
Swing
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As a kid, I used to take the sheet off of my mother's bed, make a tent and put on a show for the neighborhood kids and charge them two packs of matches. Then, the show got so good I started charging a penny.
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Neighborhood
Packs
Charge
Matches
Penny
Sheet
Tent
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Terre Haute. They used to call it 'Terrible Hut' because it was so wide open. Gambling, red light district, speak-easies. I entertained for all the gangsters. Can't name a gangster that didn't come into the place where I worked.
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Gambling
Gangsters
Light
Red
Terrible
Wide
Open
Gangster
Call
District
Entertained
Hut
Place
Red Light
Worked
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A lot of people in Hollywood are on that ego trip. They think they're more than somebody else. I've told a lot of stars in my career, 'Hey, man you're looking down on the people who made you. lf you keep doing that, you're gonna fall back down.'
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Fall
Hey
Hollywood
Stars
Career
Trip
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I worked on a weekly one-hour show live from Los Angeles called 'The Dixie Boat Show.' We only had one camera, so there was a lot of panning because it was always on, and anything that went wrong, from actors fluffing their lines to sets falling down in mid-scene, you let it go by.
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Boat
Dixie
One Hour
Falling
Sets
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