Jimmy Dean Quotes

American - Actor August 10, 1928 - June 13, 2010

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Inspirational Change Wind Destination

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Day Luck You Lucky

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Love Love Is Sex Ice Cream

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Motivational Life My Life Poverty

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.

You Better Try Say

Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.

Life Great You Get

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

Good Talent Than Further Entertainer

God is bigger than people think.

God People Think Than

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

Boy Chicken Little Cotton

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

Good Marriage Woman Man Nobody

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

You Know Getting Old Go

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Business Money People You

Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.

You Hell Being Keep

When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'

Man Think Rich Ice Cream

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

Eyes Best Tears Song

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.

Good Mother Time Fire

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

Man Today Hands Help

I'm exactly where I want to be - we live out here on the James River outside Richmond. I have three ponds, and we catch the biggest, most beautiful bass you've ever looked at in your life.

Life Beautiful Live River

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Money Me Thought Know

The other day, I said I should write a song, 'When Does the New Wear Off?' I think it would be a helluva title.

Day Song Think New

A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

Love Good I Am Me

I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.

Music Loved Church Outside

Being a nice guy is detrimental to actors. When I first came to Hollywood, everyone was nice to me. Everyone thought I was a nice guy.

Me Thought Nice Everyone

I better know how to take care of myself.

Myself Take Care Care Better

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me.

Good Me Enough Always

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