Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr is an American television, film, and theatre actor. He is of Lebanese descent. He is known for playing a cross-dressing Corporalfrom Toledo, Ohio, bucking for a Section 8 discharge, in the role of Maxwell Q. Klinger in the CBS television sitcom M*A*S*H...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth1 July 1934
CityToledo, OH
CountryUnited States of America
night want sometimes
Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.
temperature terrible terrible-things
One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.
giving people wonderful
Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes.
bills canada wonderful
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
broadway hollywood doe
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
thinking air trying
I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.
simple names people
I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.
over-you pay shows
When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.
broadway roles senses
I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.
book people pittsburgh
I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.
eight trying together
If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.
character play ensemble
If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like MASH, then you're in trouble.
dream cities towns
It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.
names people goes-on
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.