Robert Blake Quotes

Every time you think you got it made, old Mother Nature kicks you in the scrotum.

(About his roles as Tony Baretta and Father Noah Hardstep in "Baretta" (1975) and "Hell Town" (1985), respectively): There are more similarities than differences. They both care a lot about people and they both get impatient with the system if the system seems to be keeping them from doing their jobs. And they both ain`t afraid to do a little scuffling to get the job done.

(Commenting on his difficult childhood and finding success as an actor): Being locked in the closets, and beat up, and burned, and sexual stuff and to come out from under it, I mean, it`s lovely. I mean, most people like me end up on death row, or in the graveyards, or in prison.

I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.

I`m a human being, I`m not a machine. I`m 72. I`m dyslexic.

Don`t give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.

What are they going to do to me that they haven`t done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What`s left for them to take?

Right now, I`m worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, `Uncle Sam, I`m going to pay you 25 grand a month.`

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

The other day, I went to the farmers market, and everybody was hugging me and stuff, but there were people on the outside saying, `murderer.`