“My father disappeared when I was about seven years old, never to show up again, and my mother died when I was quite young, and I didn't start school 'til I was eight years old because I had a brother who died when he was fourteen, and then with my father leaving I was the only thing left that my mot…”— Jackie Gleason, youtube.comTagged: Youth, Fatherless Children
“It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.”— Jackie Gleason, youtube.comTagged: Laughter, Pathos
“When you first begin to make money and become a success, you say to yourself, ‘I'd better get all these things I wanted!’" because how fruitless it would be if you could afford these things and didn't get them. So you accumulate everything. And then you begin to realize that the materialistic things…”— Jackie Gleason, youtube.comTagged: Success, Money, Materialism
“I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality....So I knew that I had to create some characters.”— Jackie Gleason, youtube.comTagged: Acting