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Jack Paar

(1918–2004) Television Presenter United States

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Jack Paar was a television presenter from the United States, best known for My saber is bent.

Quick Facts About Jack Paar

Born: May 1, 1918
Died: January 27, 2004
Nationality: United States
Profession: Television Presenter
Notable works: My saber is bent
Known for: Tonight Starring Jack Paar

About Jack Paar

Jack Harold Paar was an American talk show host, writer, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the second host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's obituary of Paar reported wryly, "His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar."

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Quotes by Jack Paar

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Flattery

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Randy and I were goggle-eyed as we gazed over the wonders of what Walt Disney had wrought. It was a magnificent demonstration…

Demonstration

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Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

Adversity

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She should get a divorce and settle down.

Divorce

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Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was…

Breakaway

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Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more…

Bedroom

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... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

California

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Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right…

Believe

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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns…

Mind

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Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of…

Advantage

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One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

He

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Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

California

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I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry…

Cities

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I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.

Complicated love

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In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

Acting

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Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.

Adversity

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As I was saying before I was interrupted ... I believe the last thing I said was 'There must be a better…

Believe

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The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.

Attractive

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It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.

California

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We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall…

Break

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Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe…

Blood

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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on…

Finished

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The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.

Believer

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To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

Reality

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As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

Adversity

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Jack Paar by topic

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