Words matter. These are the best Dummy Quotes from famous people such as Don Rickles, Jeff Dunham, Alan Ladd, Roger Goodell, Paul Thomas Anderson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I was a younger guy doing comedy, it was a big struggle. Promoters canceled me out of clubs left and right when I called somebody a dummy or a yo-yo. Then they realized I was different.
All through college, I was searching for characters that would make me unique and set me apart from the typical ventriloquist with the typical dummy that was the little boy, cheeky hard figure like Charlie McCarthy.
Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn’t happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.
I was a dummy in school.
My goal was to prove to my family I wasn’t a dummy.
Of course, I’m no dummy.
The world is ready for a more sophisticated ‘TMZ.’ If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that any dummy with a half-decent idea can become a billionaire.
Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
It’s true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
Directors would tell me, ‘We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.’ Yeah, sure. What they mean is, ‘You’re playing a dummy.’
I’m no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.
I work hard at what I do, and it does take time and a lot of commitment, so for me, it is proving to other people that I’m not just another dummy.
I was a big shot in high school – big into social events and at the dramatic society – and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.
Sometimes when I’m in the editing room and there’s a new person there, like a music editor or a post person that I don’t really know, I’m like, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t be in here. This is too personal – you can’t watch this.’ But then I’m like, hey dummy, you’re about to show this to the whole world.
Having a mom as a hairdresser was really awesome: I was always her test dummy. I’ve had every style, every color you could imagine.
I’m kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, ‘Oh, I’m the protagonist.’
I’m no dummy. So much of the NBA is just fit and situation, and I always say this, for 85 to 90 percent of the league, your performance is often dictated by your situation and your coaches.
I think when we use ‘stress’, we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.
My mother’s no dummy. She taught the lesson about sacrificing for your kids, but also that if your kids hit it big, they better make it up to you for those years. She’s gotten her sacrifices back with interest.
Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the ‘dummy class.’
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn’t remember his name.
To be accused of ‘channeling’ is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist’s live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one’s own.
If a producer has 5 million bucks tied up in a picture, he’s not about to let a guy like Burt Reynolds wreck a car when he can get a dummy like me to do it. But some stars would make good stuntmen. Reynolds is one of them. Bob Fuller and Doug McClure are strong, tough guys with plenty of courage, too.
When I did ‘Esquire,’ I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson’s lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.
When there’s not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, ‘Hey, dummy,’ or ‘Hey, Mayhem.’
