Tiny Tim

“I am ready for anything that happens.”

“My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.”

“I'm the type of person, I cannot waste time.”

“I knew that someday I would be discovered.”

“There are a lot of ups and downs. But there are always people who have it worse.”

“I always wanted to be a big star.”

“As long as those pretty girls notice me, I don't care if they say, 'Ghastly, horrible'... I live for the beautiful angels.”

“Death is never polite, even when we expect it.”

“If you go back to the minors, you have to start swinging and hitting the ball again. I've been in the minors since the '70s semipros, let's put it that way.”

“I don't know why, but I felt as if I was always behind the eight ball, so to speak.”

“I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.”

“It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, 'What is that?'”

“You sing fast and hope to get out.”

“In this business, you gotta hustle.”

“I think they should give me a spot on 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' or one of those shows.”

“I'm a very difficult person to live with.”

“I don't believe in birth control.”

“I always love the smell of a bat and a glove, or a hockey puck in the winter time.”

“If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there's a problem.”

“Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon.”