Words matter. These are the best Leslie Nielsen Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Shirley! Don’t call me Shirley!
I like that kind of ‘straight-faced’ comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.
I don’t have a hard and fast rule about dignity. I’m concerned about being treated with respect, but if I make my own choices and kind of let ‘er rip, I will.
I’ve always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you’d want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn’t laugh, you were in trouble!
I’ve produced, but as for directing, that’s a dream that’ll have to go unfulfilled.
Yes, it’s true, I’ve been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.
I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.
I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.
The reason they call it ‘golf’ is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
In those days, I auditioned for everything MGM made while I was under contract. Not for the roles Elizabeth Taylor eventually got, of course.
The reason there’s a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.
There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he’d have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.
I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account.
To be honest, I never, ever thought I’d ever do comedy. I was so frequently cast early on as a high-born young man with… ‘problems’ and, later, as a heavy, from black-hatted western villains to the corporate raider to bad cops.
