A biography for Danny Kayehasn’t been written yet.
“I am a wife-made man.”
“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”
“Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.”
“You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.”
“I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.”
“I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.”
“When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.”
“I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.”
“Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.”
“There is a danger in democracy itself.”
“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
“I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.”
“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”