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All Quotes by author - Norman Lloyd

" Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while. "

" An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them. "

" As far as 'St. Elsewhere' goes, I just loved that show. "

" Connie Bennett, the guys used to stake her, she was so good. "

" Everyone's looking for who's hot. What about looking for who's good? "

" I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people. "

" I don't eat shellfish. I drink wine moderately and have one whiskey every evening before dinner. "

" I eat meat, poultry and fish in proper proportion - nothing to excess. "

" If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English. "

" If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete. "

" I have never had a better working experience than 'St. Elsewhere.' It's a supreme show. "

" I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.' "

" I knew a lot of people who were beaten by the Depression, but there was still a feeling of positiveness among people: everyone thought it's got to get better. We were all trying to get the country back on its feet. There was a feeling that you could do anything, and this was certainly very true in the theater. "

" I loved 'Modern Family!' It was sort of the precursor to 'Trainwreck,' to that character. But I loved it. I had a great time doing it. "

" I loved working with Renoir on 'The Southerner.' Oh, I loved it! I particularly loved when he had a scene with a cow going through a garden, and he wanted a little dog to come and bark at it and chase it out. "

" I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha! "

" I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that. "

" I'm very fond of Amy Schumer. I think she's terrific, an enormous talent. "

" I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened. "

" I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life. "

" I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents. "

" I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400! "

" I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that. "

" I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club. "

" I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor. "

" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

" I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run. "

" Karl Malden! A dear, dear, dear friend. I loved Karl. He was great. "

" My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York. "

" People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television. "

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