Walter Winchell Quotes

Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

It's funny to be a critic.

There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!

Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.

When I see an idiot in high station I will add such terrors to his elevation as I can. I will put as many thorns in his crown as the leisure that I can snatch from the pressure of other pleasures will permit me to weave in; and neither the deprecation of his friends nor his own retaliatory lies shall stop the good work.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

Sex sells everything, but I don't buy it.

When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.

Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

He who shoots first laughs last.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.

I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.