Jack Klugman Quotes
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
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Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
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All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
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I refuse to believe that 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...' is now an empty entreaty. But if it is, shame on us.
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For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
