Danny Kaye Quotes

Danny Kaye delivers lively, self-aware quips about destiny and marriage that feel like a backstage chat.

16 quotes

1. I am a wife-made man

2. I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

3. I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

4. Sylvia Fine

5. Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better.

6. When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

7. Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

8. I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.

9. After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it.

10. The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.

11. Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

12. There is a danger in democracy itself.

13. When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.

14. I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

15. To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

16. Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.