Tiny Tim

Falsetto ukulele player

Contemporary weird famous 181 sayings

Sayings by Tiny Tim

I believe in magic. I believe in miracles.

1969 — Interview with The New York Times
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I'm a very playful person. I love to play games. I love to have fun.

1970 — Interview with Dick Cavett
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I'm for life on every planet.

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite
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So Planned Parenthood is part of Satan? TT: In my opinion, yes.

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite, responding to interviewer's question
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I never yield to the tiredness. Never bite the hand that feeds you.

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite, asked if he was sick of playing 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips'
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Sex in heaven? ... with a 15-year-old girl if her parents said it was okay.

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite, responding to a question about sex in heaven
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abortion which is the murder of a life.

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite
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I mean marriage is only for children here you don't have to marry me but if you're if you're lying there's a highest sace that knows about it no no no I want to marry. you I you okay fine I said but you knew you were dealing with a 17-year-old who maybe didn't have the greatest cognitive reasoning in the world. true but you know if they know how to eat if they know they know how to pick up a glass they know when they're doing wrong age means. nothing

c. 1994 — Morton Downey Jr. show, discussing his marriage to Miss Vicki (who was 17 when he was 'nearer 40')
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if we marry I don't believe in birth. control.

c. 1969 — Said to Miss Vicki before their marriage
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the the the woman committed adultery on me and I still wouldn't divorce her because I don't believe in divorce she got a divorce because the state of Jersey gave it to her in 1977.

c. 1994 — Morton Downey Jr. show, referring to his first wife, Miss Vicki
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I would say to her [Tulip, his daughter] you don't have to call me father because right I wasn't there.

c. 1994 — Morton Downey Jr. show, discussing his estranged daughter
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Licking honey off their bodies (and then chastising himself about it to Jesus) happened more than once.

Undated, documented in 2016 biography — Description of his sexual inclinations, from his diaries as revealed in 'Eternal Troubadour: The Imp…
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Each year, he would give a trophy to 'The Most Beautiful Girl' in his life — even if it wasn't a wife or girlfriend.

Undated, documented in 2016 biography — Description from 'Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim'
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And he very nonchalantly told first wife Miss Vicki (who was 17 to his 37 when they married on The Tonight Show) in the limo after the ceremony that he would continue to see and have other women.

c. 1969 — Description from 'Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim'
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passionately supporting Richard Nixon and the war in Vietnam, keeping women at home, and practicing an intense love for and devotion to Jesus Christ?

c. 1960s-1970s — Description of his counterculture views from 'Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim'
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Tim also put out bizarre single releases like 'Santa Claus Has Got the AIDS This Year.'

Undated, documented in 2016 biography — Description from 'Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim'
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The diaries he kept throughout his life... portray a deeply religious soul striving to be good, but continually tortured by his own actions and imperfections, which he felt were an affront to his 'Lord Jesus Christ' and might lead to his damnation. He wrestled with those issues his entire life.

Throughout his life, documented in 2016 biography — Description from 'Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim'
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I do have some eccentricities. i like to sleep i I I like to sleep I like to sleep in the cold. you know without no air without no heat uh in the summertime. I hate the air conditioners. and these women you know want something else they're beautiful women but it's very hard to live with me i must admit that i like separate rooms

1991 — Interview from 1991
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I just asked the Lord i pray Jesus Christ for his blessings i needed something new i didn't want to sound like Miss Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra or any of the rest because I remember in 1940. I could have sounded something like the day break another new day. you know but everyone was sounding like that right and so one day uh you know uh in 1952. uh I I just sang a song like Tony Bennett. because of you there's a song. in my heart. and all of a sudden it sounded. because of you my romance i said 'Gee what what what what do I have here?' And all of a sudden. I experimented with it. and uh it started to click and that's what happened it's your trademark. and it sold millions.

1991 — Interview from 1991, explaining the origin of his falsetto voice
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I'll never get married. again i'll never get married. again.

1991 — Singing during a 1991 interview
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