How sweet it is!
I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
Jackie would rub his stomach as a signal in the event of forgetting his lines on The Honeymooners, since he insisted on doing the show without rehearsals.
Gleason wrote all the music for the Chaplain-esque movie Gigot (1962) prior to each scene filmed. The remarkable actor wrote and starred in the touching movie, but did not utter a single word because he portrayed the part of a "mute."
Salary: All Through the Night (1942) $500/week "Cavalcade of Stars" (1949) $750/week "The Jackie Gleason Show" (1966) $50,000/week Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) $1,200,000
Jackie told of how he once had a 6-hour drinking session with Richard Nixon, both drinking large amounts of Scotch. Jackie said he was so drunk he couldn't stand up, but Nixon walked out, "straight as a soldier."
Jackie designed the barstools in his Florida home, and claimed they were impossible to fall out of, no matter how intoxicated someone got.
Jackie played the vibraphone.
Won the Tony Award for Best Actor In A Musical in 1960 for his work in "Take Me Along."
Jackie designed his own round house in Peerskill, NY, and had Swedish carpenters build it. It had a basement disco and one of the very first home video projection systems.
Jackie's tombstone is a two-tier one, the second level of which is inscribed with his famous show-opening catchphrase, "And away we go."
Jackie said the famous actor/director Orson Welles gave him his nickname of "The Great One."
Father of actress Linda Miller.
The Jackie Gleason Show gave the tourist industry in Miami Beach a big boost in the early 1960s.
Jack was a carnival barker, a boxer and a pool hustler in his early days.
The Jackie Gleason Bus Depot in Brooklyn, NY, is named after him.
Jackie was very interested in the occult; he also possessed an extensive collection of books on the paranormal.
Jackie disliked working with young children.
Also starred on Broadway in such shows as "Artists And Models," "Along Fifth Avenue," and "Follow The Girls."
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