"I think basically an actor is a salesman."

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"My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that."

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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."

"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"

Explore more quotes by Paul Lynde

"My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that."

"The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name."

"An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing."

"A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world."

"The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt."

"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage."

"When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars."

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