Talk:Dean Martin

Unsourced quotes by Dean Martin

The listing below originates from the first deleted version of this Wikiquote article. Mdd (talk) 09:37, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Quotes from interviews

• I don't mind being a legend
  • interview from early '80s

• No. It has been done too much. It has been copied.
  • replying to the question if an act like Martin and Lewis would have worked today.

• Me and Frank don't sing in movies anymore. We are not too crazy about musicals.
  • Interview from mid-sixties, replying to the question if there are any songs in his new movie.

Song lyrics

• When the moon hits your eye like a big piza pie that's amore.
  • That's Amore

• You know what, I forgot this and that and quite a lot. Not a smarty.
  • That Certain Party.

• If I had it in my power. I'd arrange for every girl to have your charms.
  • Everybody Loves Somebody

• I've sunshine enough to spread. She picked out a kingsized bed.
  • Ain't that a Kick in the Head.

Quotes from movies

• You don't have radiation poisoning. Look, and your blood count, it got away from me. I should have paid more attention in class.
  • From movie Living It Up (1954)

• I move, I breath I seem to feel the thrill of life along the keel.
  • From movie Ocean's 11 (1960)

• • Together both? That's as bad as, "Up the street, the soldiers, they're marching down.
  • From movie Sailor Beware (1952)

Quotes from television

• The Rolling Stones, wasn't it great? (rolled eye)
  • Hosting Hollywood Palace in 1964. (online)

• What does it matter? A kid is a kid.
  • Joke from sketch from an episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour.

• I'm working at the meggum."
  • Martin and Lewis reunion from Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon (1976)

Quotes from concerts

• If all the women in Texas were as ugly as your momma, the Lone Ranger gonna be alone for a long time!
  • With Sammy Davis Jr. during a Rat Pack concert.

• I'd like to dedicate this song to Eddy Fisher.
  • Live from Lake Tahoe, 1962

Quotes about Dean Martin

• There was always Dean and Jerry, nothing else.
  • Elvis Presley, singer/actor

• Dean Martin was the epitome of adult smoothness. Grown-ups in my life were divided into two very distinctive camps. The bigger camp was Frank Sinatra. The smaller camp was Dean Martin, and his television show in the United States, was him in a tuxedo in a groovy apartment chatting with people over a piano, and [laughs] hearing 'Relax-Ay-Voo' for the first time with Line Renaud, there's a line in here that is the most unhip lyric I have ever heard in any song everywhere, which is "Lets put on our sneakers and slacks and relax-ay-vous." There's nothing more incongruous. Dean Martin doesn't talk about sneakers and slacks, but you could just see him there saying "Hey I don't care what the line is. Lets just lay it down and record the thing. Put on your sneakers and slacks and relax-ay-voo."
  • Tom Hanks, actor, who impersonated Dean Martin on Saturday Night Live and was at one point considered to portray in Martin Scorsese's planned biopic on his life. [1]

• I was amazed to be asked to play it, but it was kind of frightening because he was such a well-known and well-loved person. He was an icon, a sort of mythical modern figure.

• Dean had sort of a natural performer in him, and I think Jerry was a natural performer in quite a different way. It must have been very difficult for both of them to work at that level of intensity and not wonder from time to time, 'who is the audience looking at here?' It must have been hard for Dean to not feel like he was just the straight guy and for Jerry to not feel like he was just the monkey on top of the organ. I think those insecurities must have been hard to suppress.
  • Jeremy Northam, actor, who portrayed Dean Martin in the made-for-TV movie Martin and Lewis (2002) [2]