Skip to content

Portrait of Jamie Farr

Jamie Farr

(1934) Comedian United States

45 quotes in 229 categories

Jamie Farr is a comedian from the United States, best known for Reader's Digest Presents Humor in Uniform.

Quick Facts About Jamie Farr

Born: July 1, 1934
Nationality: United States
Profession: Comedian
Notable works: Reader's Digest Presents Humor in Uniform

About Jamie Farr

Jamie Farr is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Corporal Maxwell Klinger, a soldier who tried to get discharged from the army by cross-dressing, on the CBS sitcom M*A*S*H. After M*A*S*H, Farr reprised the role of Klinger for AfterMASH and appeared both in small roles on popular shows such as The Love Boat and as a host or panelist on game shows including Battle of the Network Stars. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Ellis Island Medal of Honor star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Quotes by Jamie Farr · Page 2

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody…

Actors

Image

If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.

Difficult

Image

The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

I realized

Image

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Hockey

Image

I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

Done

Image

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Broadway

Image

If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's…

Character

Image

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

Names

Image

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

Beautiful

Image

I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

Broadway

Image

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

Adults

Image

You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you…

Acquaintance

Image

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

Temperature

Image

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

Always

Image

I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way…

Friendship

Image

There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat.…

Coats

Image

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Bills

Image

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town,…

Better person

Image

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Behind the scenes

Image

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

Night

Image

Jamie Farr by topic

Shows (9)