Occupation: Film Actor Birth: July 1, 1934
I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy..
You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you re….
I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category..
If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you'….
The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take..
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name..
Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup..
There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Tha….
When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do..
Usually you'd do the summer scenes in the winter. So you're out there with a T-shirt and hope nobody sees your air that you're breathing out. We put ….
There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!.
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television..
I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it..
I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954..
I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses..
I certainly don't have any airs about myself..
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer..
One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside..
When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!.
I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up..
You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars....