Jim Backus Quotations

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

If at the end of this year, if we have money, we may start replacing some of them,

Cesar Romero would attend the opening of a napkin.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.