Roy Scheider Quotes

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

(speaking in 1980) "You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let `em piss on me?"

(On Bob Fosse) Fosse, I think, came to a high point in his life, with an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy, and asked himself, "Do they think I`m really that good? They don`t know I`m really a sham, a hoax, a phony, a lousy human being, not much of a friend to anybody and a flop ... they don`t know I`m covered with flop sweat". That`s an expression Bob uses a lot -- flop sweat.

(On working with Jane Fonda on Klute (1971)) I liked her passion. And her professionalism. You know, Jane worked for years as a silly ingénue on the stage in New York and, I mean, she was laughable at first. But she stayed with it and, slowly, carefully, learned her craft.