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Tony Randall
February 26, 1920 - May 17, 2004
Nationality: American
Category: Actor
Subcategory: American Actor

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

   

Museums, I love museums.

   

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

   

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

   

The competition is pretty rough these days.

   

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

   

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

   

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

   

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.

   

Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

   

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

   

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.

   

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

   

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

   

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

   

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

   

I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.

   

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

   

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

   

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

   

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