Gleason Quotes - Page 1

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?
Maureen O'hara / Film Actress
Angry
Jackie
Gleason
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You can compare Fred and Barney Rubble with Gleason and Carney.
William Hanna /
Compare
Rubble
Barney
Fred
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Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.
Minnesota Fats /
Brooklyn
Long Island
Island
Gleason
Rack
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Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
Larry King / Radio Host
Helping
Mentor
Radio
Television
Gleason
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I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
Elvis Presley / Singer
Jackie
Allen
Gleason
Steve
Sullivan
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Gleason was a rough guy. Like all of these comics, I have never known one who is a sweetheart all the way through.
Howard Deutch /
Rough
Sweetheart
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Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Chuck Jones / Animator
Art
Happiness
Dramatic
Instant
Jackie
Laughter
Critic
Exacting
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My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.
Chuck Berry / Guitarist
Automobile
Cleveland
Plant
Bar
First Job
Gleason
Overtime
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What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
Buddy Hackett / Comedian
Catholic
Comedian
Jackie
Jimmy
Red
Thinking
Catholics
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
Ed O'neill / Actor
Jackie
Burnett
Caesar
Carol
Carol Burnett
Comedians
Gleason
Jonathan
Phil
Winters
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I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Jackie
Silent
Comedies
Gleason
Phil
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When you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, your condition is ranked on the Gleason Score, which measures its level of aggression. Mine is graded at seven out of 10. But this doesn't tell me where I stand in general.
George Monbiot / Writer
Prostate
Condition
Diagnosed
Gleason
Measures
Ranked
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Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.
George Thorogood / Vocalist
Famous
Bus Driver
Humorous
Looks
Want
Driver
Gleason
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Boxing
Jackie
Living Room
Musician
Orchestra
Tinkering
Buddies
George
Gleason
Oscar
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Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
Jason Alexander / Actor
Backwards
Comedic
Jackie
Laughing
Make Me Laugh
Range
Rocks
Son
Work Great Me
Louis
Work Great Look
Chris
Chris Rock
Gleason
Improv
Paul
Phil
Seinfeld
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I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn't rub two quarters together and said, 'Did you ever think of being on TV?' And somehow I ended up in 'Taxi,' which is the craziest thing of all.
Tony Danza / Actor
Boxing
Craziest
Gym
Mecca
Quarters
Taxi
Avenue
Ended
Gleason
Rub
Walked
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While prepping 'Smokey,' I saw a picture in a magazine of a Pontiac Trans Am that gave me a product placement idea. I could picture Burt Reynolds behind the wheel with Jackie Gleason on the chase. I called Pontiac and asked if they would like to have the car in the movie.
Hal Needham / Stuntman
Jackie
Placement
Chase
Gleason
Magazine
Smokey
Wheel
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I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.
Bernie Mac / Stand-Up Comedian
Mom
Comedy
Credit
Games
People
Red
Love Game People
Benny
Bill
Bill Cosby
Burnett
Carol
Carol Burnett
Cosby
Student
George
Gleason
Richard
Jack
Moms
Page
Pryor
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During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did.
Siobhan Fallon Hogan / Film Actress
Daughter
Aunt
Catholic
Jackie
Program
Semester
Senior
Senior Year
Encouraged
Gleason
Linda
Miller
Recommended
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Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.
James Wolcott / Journalist
Dainty
Gentlemanly
Grandeur
Hardy
Jackie
Magic
Nimble
Performing
Refinement
Stars
Tricks
Wide
Belt
Cultivated
Filtered
Gleason
Lady
Welles
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