Eddie Cantor

“It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.”

“A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.”

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”

“To get a great audience, you have to be a great audience.”

“The best way to be happy is to make someone else happy.”

“I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.”

“If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.”

“That's the trouble with show business. The stars realize they're stars, and then they act like it.”

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

“When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists, I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.”