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
stupid names faces
The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, My name is Humphrey, somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.
thinking nails pounds
They sometimes beat things into the ground. They don't know when to get out of a situation. They think the more you pound the nail into the ground, the funnier it gets. That's not necessarily true.
bills canada wonderful
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
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.
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.
temperature terrible terrible-things
One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.
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.
cousin uncles each-day
Sometimes you get a call and an uncle passed away that you really liked, or a cousin or somebody else. So each day becomes a little more precious then the day that preceded it.
phones broadway tvs
The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.
years friendship-over deals
You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.
country different boat
When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!
summer winter ice
Usually you'd do the summer scenes in the winter. So you're out there with a T-shirt and hope nobody sees your air that you're breathing out. We put ice cubes in our mouth to stop that from happening.
morning children phoenix
There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.