Red Skelton (Richard Skelton) Quotes
Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.
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There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
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You never know how much time you got.
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For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
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Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
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If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
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If you had told me in 1968 that 20 years later I'd still be receiving wonderful royalty checks for those three years, I wouldn't have believed you.
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There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.
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Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.
