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I'd make Jack Benny look like a philanthropist. -- Gilbert Gottfried
My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing. -- Don Knotts
The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences. -- Bob Newhart
I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings. -- Dwayne Hickman
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in. -- Bob Hope
I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny. -- Joan Collins
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice. -- Phil Hartman
I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews. -- Bruce Forsyth
If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage. -- Bob Newhart
Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story. -- Bob Newhart
I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head. -- Bob Newhart
I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.' -- Albert Brooks
When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.' -- David Gerrold
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks. -- Mike Nichols
It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that. -- Mike Nichols
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny. -- Jon Tester
I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them. -- Bernie Mac
Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost. -- Harold C. Schonberg
There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes. -- Fred Allen
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat. -- Fred Allen
When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks. -- George Burns
Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me. -- Bob Hope
My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off! -- Bob Hope
I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show. -- Johnny Cash
Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius. -- William Saroyan
I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh." -- Harry Shearer
I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.' -- Albert Brooks
Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in. -- Bob Hope
Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong. -- Harry Shearer

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