Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and…

- Charles Kimbrough

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two …

- Charles Kimbrough

I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an im…

- Charles Kimbrough

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

- Charles Kimbrough

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

- Charles Kimbrough

I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's wha…

- Charles Kimbrough