Don Adams Quotes

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can`t remember a name three seconds. I`ve even forgotten my wife`s name on occasion.

I hate performing. I don`t care about being thought funny; I never did. Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

I like getting married, but I don`t like being married.

I`ve been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That`s a joke, but not by much.

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn`t until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

(interview with Robert DeRossi, 10/27/65) I don`t want to change the thinking of the world. My purpose is to make people laugh . . . It would be hypocritical if I said I don`t want recognition, but I`ve never wanted it terribly. I think I`m being honest when I say I`d rather turn my talents, whatever they are, to writing and directing.

In restaurants, (people) send over shoes. I`m so tired of it. I keep getting shoes.

The character was so strong, particularly because of that distinctive voice, that nobody could picture me in any other type of role.