Tramp Quotes

"Mamie Eisenhower was our First Lady at the time, and she always wore bangs. The little dog has bangs and her name in the script was Mamie, so Walt (Disney) was afraid someone might think we were being a little less than polite about the First Lady. That`s why I have the honor of having the character named after me." - referring to her animated doggie character "Peg" in Lady and the Tramp (1955).

(on his screen character, The Little Tramp) A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

The summation of my character (The Tramp) is that I care about my work. I care about everything I do. If I could do something else better, I would do it, but I can`t.

(On the differences between his and Charles Chaplin`s characters) "Charlie`s tramp was a bum with a bum`s philosophy. Lovable as he was, he would steal if he got the chance. My little fellow was a working man and honest."

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she`s a tramp.

Fame is short-lived and you`re the last to know when you are no longer hot. I used to be able to stroll into London clubs like Tramp. But one day I turned up and the doorman blocked my way. Suddenly I was no longer Bond, I was just plain old George Lazenby, and that didn`t even give me license to get into a club.

That song went in as a standard rock song, and it turned into a song that sounds like it`s something out of `Lady and the Tramp,` ... It`s got accordion and jazz flute on it. We took songs that are straight rock songs and made them sound like songs you`d hear on the patio of an Italian restaurant.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.