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" I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever. "

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Come

Likes

" People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them. "

" I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved. "

Wayne Rogers

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Television

" I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting. "

" I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too. "

" You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong. "

" Look first at management. That's the key to a company. "

" Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me. "

Wayne Rogers

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Hollywood

" We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base. "

" When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date. "

" Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity. "

" The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people. "

" What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn. "

" To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay. "

" Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress. "

" Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue. "

" It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that. "

" I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life. "

" There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too. "

" I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get. "

" People will always want a free lunch. "

" We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people? "

" You can't change the market; the market just is. "

" When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal. "

" I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives. "

" As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them. "

" Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce. "

" You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy. "

" If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box. "

" We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur. "