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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
— Jimmy Durante
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Jimmy Durante
comedian, pianist, jazz musician, film actor, television actor, stage actor, voice actor, singer, recording artist, actor
1893 – 1980
James Francis Durante was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.
All Quotes by Jimmy Durante
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
— Jimmy Durante
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Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.
— Jimmy Durante
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That's the conditions that prevail!
— Jimmy Durante
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I'm mortified!
— Jimmy Durante
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Surrounded by assassins!
— Jimmy Durante
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Everybody wants ta get inta da act!
— Jimmy Durante
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I don't know where it's going, but I'm sticking with it!
— Jimmy Durante
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I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.
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Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
— Jimmy Durante
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Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.
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Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
— Jimmy Durante