top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."
Standard
Customized
More
"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country."
Love
"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."
Pain
"Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity."
Dignity
"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
Religion
"True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."
Love
"Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow."
Life
"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."
Actor
"Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again."
Work
"If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend."
Friendship
"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."
Love
bottom of page