"I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series."

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"I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

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Explore more quotes by William Devane

"At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that."

Time

"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have."

Work

"And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon."

Time

"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

Writer

"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."

Architecture

"The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers."

Now

"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process."

Business

"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore."

Want

"I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did."

Care

"I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that."

People