Johnny Weissmuller quote: "How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane," and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe."

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was...
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

Me Tarzan, you Jane.
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture...
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic c...
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

We're more effective than birth control pills.
JOHNNY CARSON

If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjus...
JOHNNY IUZZINI

I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man.
JOHNNY WEIR

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
JOHNNY DEPP

If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I've do...
JOHNNY DEPP

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was...
JOHNNY DEPP

There's no truth anymore.
JOHNNY DEPP

Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.
JOHNNY DEPP

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the pe...
JOHNNY DEPP

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whet...
JOHNNY DEPP

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of ...
JOHNNY DEPP

There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There&...
JOHNNY DEPP

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheeri...
JOHNNY WEIR

Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people t...
JOHNNY WEIR

I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I ...
JOHNNY WEIR

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see m...
JOHNNY WEIR

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.
JOHNNY WEIR

For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fight...
JOHNNY WEIR

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perf...
JOHNNY WEIR

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I w...
JOHNNY DEPP

Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that's half the battle.
JOHNNY IUZZINI

I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
JOHNNY DEPP

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.
JOHNNY DEPP

Escapism is survival to me.
JOHNNY DEPP

Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping cen...
JOHNNY ISAKSON

I love biscuits. I have a real thing for a biscuits, and if it's not made right, I'm gonna c...
JOHNNY IUZZINI

When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side...
JOHNNY GIMBLE

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a ...
JOHNNY OTIS

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers u...
JOHNNY MERCER

Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known w...
JOHNNY DEPP

There is more that unites us than divides us. So make it a point to talk with someone who is differe...
JOHNNY CORN

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto ...
JOHNNY DEPP

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken plac...
JOHNNY CARSON

What calmed me down finally was when my girlfriend got pregnant.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE

In a lot of ways, Nauru is something like a canary in a coal mine: It's a tiny place with more t...
JOHNNY COLT

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I...
JOHNNY DEPP

I'm not Blockbuster Boy.
JOHNNY DEPP

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
JOHNNY CARSON

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.
JOHNNY DEPP

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people fina...
JOHNNY WEIR

I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I'd been lucky if fi...
JOHNNY DEPP

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bu...
JOHNNY DEPP

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappe...
JOHNNY DEPP

Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras...
JOHNNY WEIR

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, lik...
JOHNNY DEPP

Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe,...
JOHNNY GALECKI

As chefs, especially pastry chefs, your creativity plays such an important part in your daily work. ...
JOHNNY IUZZINI

With Ed Wood, it was this sort of blending of Ronald Reagan, the Tin Man from 'The Wizard of Oz,...
JOHNNY DEPP

I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.
JOHNNY WEIR

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be hono...
JOHNNY VEGAS

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
JOHNNY DEPP

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still ...
JOHNNY CASH

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up i...
JOHNNY DEPP

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart...
JOHNNY DEPP

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.
JOHNNY HART

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.
JOHNNY DEPP

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
JOHNNY DEPP

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
JOHNNY CARSON

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
JOHNNY CARSON

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
JOHNNY CARSON

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and idea...
JOHNNY HART

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't wh...
JOHNNY UNITAS

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence...
JOHNNY UNITAS

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
JOHNNY CARSON

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
JOHNNY CARSON

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the cl...
JOHNNY CASH

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to f...
JOHNNY CASH

After about three lessons my voice teacher said, 'Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a...
JOHNNY CASH

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking a...
JOHNNY DEPP

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
JOHNNY BENCH

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, w...
JOHNNY CASH

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
JOHNNY CARSON

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
JOHNNY UNITAS

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
JOHNNY CARSON

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall...
JOHNNY DEPP

Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.
JOHNNY DEPP

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves ...
JOHNNY DEPP

America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you - aggressi...
JOHNNY DEPP

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE

Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks...
JOHNNY RAMONE

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it&#...
JOHNNY DEPP

I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing...
JOHNNY WEIR

If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.
JOHNNY MILLER

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.
JOHNNY MILLER

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing th...
JOHNNY DEPP

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right;...
JOHNNY WINTER

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.
JOHNNY WINTER

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I cou...
JOHNNY OTIS

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sp...
JOHNNY WEIR

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared t...
JOHNNY DEPP

When you think about French pastry, one of the most classic traditional pastries is the eclair. An e...
JOHNNY IUZZINI

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
JOHNNY CARSON

Just trust those around you and trust yourself.
JOHNNY SIMMONS

I'm an alpha male - what else can I say?
JOHNNY MESSNER

'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself ...
JOHNNY DEPP

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle,...
JOHNNY WEIR

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, bu...
JOHNNY MERCER

Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, yo...
JOHNNY IUZZINI

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I&...
JOHNNY WEIR

I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm...
JOHNNY CASH

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'...
JOHNNY CASH

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
JOHNNY CASH

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of G...
JOHNNY CASH

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't k...
JOHNNY CASH

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people li...
JOHNNY CASH

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more exci...
JOHNNY CASH

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching telev...
JOHNNY CASH

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what yo...
JOHNNY CASH

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like blac...
JOHNNY CASH

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good....
JOHNNY CASH

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play...
JOHNNY CASH

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.
JOHNNY CASH

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
JOHNNY CASH

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their g...
JOHNNY CASH

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
JOHNNY CASH

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
JOHNNY CASH

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
JOHNNY CASH

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out wha...
JOHNNY CASH

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn t...
JOHNNY ISAKSON

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
JOHNNY DEPP

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
JOHNNY MILLER

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to...
JOHNNY DEPP

At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.
JOHNNY DEPP

The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always...
JOHNNY IUZZINI

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day h...
JOHNNY CARSON

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm f...
JOHNNY DEPP

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God wou...
JOHNNY CASH

Autumn is my favorite season.
JOHNNY KELLY

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part o...
JOHNNY WEIR

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.
JOHNNY MILLER

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminar...
JOHNNY VEGAS

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
JOHNNY RAMONE

My claim to fame has always been that iconic picture that ended up in 'The San Francisco Chronic...
JOHNNY MATHIS

Simplicity - that's what I want. It's been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, bu...
JOHNNY DEPP

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular...
JOHNNY MARR

I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 ye...
JOHNNY DEPP

I did do a film that I refer to as 'The Unpronounceable' by a guy named Yvan Attal with Char...
JOHNNY DEPP

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evi...
JOHNNY DEPP

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drop...
JOHNNY BENCH

The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.
JOHNNY BENCH

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 7...
JOHNNY BENCH

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing...
JOHNNY BENCH

Pastry school is great for a foundation and introducing you to basic techniques, but it is really up...
JOHNNY IUZZINI

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.
JOHNNY DEPP

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you'v...
JOHNNY MARR

One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a lit...
JOHNNY DEPP

Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on th...
JOHNNY MATHIS

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. ...
JOHNNY DEPP

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it...
JOHNNY DEPP

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And ...
JOHNNY WEIR

All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to...
JOHNNY MATHIS

I've had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to ...
JOHNNY DEPP

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily imp...
JOHNNY KELLY

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a l...
JOHNNY WEIR

In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills...
JOHNNY WEIR

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the who...
JOHNNY CASH

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision f...
JOHNNY GALECKI

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.
JOHNNY ISAKSON

Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and...
JOHNNY OLSON

A pastry chef's lifespan in a restaurant is limited. You have to open a bakery or pastry shop. T...
JOHNNY IUZZINI

I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total ano...
JOHNNY DEPP

So many people in the gay community have always asked me to come out, say it like it is, and help ou...
JOHNNY WEIR

When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything othe...
JOHNNY DEPP

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to go...
JOHNNY BENCH

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.
JOHNNY RIVERS

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out...
JOHNNY VEGAS

One day, the infielders were having a pretty bad time and were making some bad throws to me at first...
JOHNNY MIZE

I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just ge...
JOHNNY DEPP

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was ...
JOHNNY DEPP

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE

Tony Bennett and me are all the same... and he's still singing. I don't know what else to do...
JOHNNY MATHIS

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, lookin...
JOHNNY DEPP

I'm not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What&#...
JOHNNY WEIR

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to ...
JOHNNY BALL

One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing m...
JOHNNY DEPP

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.
JOHNNY DEPP

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first on...
JOHNNY DEPP

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ...
JOHNNY CASH

I have pictures of me feeding deer and possums with baby bottles. I am such an animal lover.
JOHNNY IUZZINI

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing...
JOHNNY VEGAS

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.
JOHNNY WEIR

My parents said that I was nine months old and would throw myself out of the crib onto the floor con...
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel go...
JOHNNY DEPP

Daniel Boulud told me at a young age, 'Whatever happens to you in your career, you're going ...
JOHNNY IUZZINI

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.
JOHNNY OLSON

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
JOHNNY CARSON

I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.
JOHNNY GIMBLE

Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as '...
JOHNNY VEGAS

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane," and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.

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How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane," and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.

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