Tony Randall Quotes

We`re also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That`s something to boast about, isn`t it?

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

There`s only one thing worse than a man who doesn`t have strong likes and dislikes, and that`s a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

I`ve always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

Museums, I love museums.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

Awards sell tickets, and they`re a clever publicity stunt.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That`s what they were written for. That`s where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You`ve been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It`s Brooke Shields.

And it`s a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody`s heritage. It`s just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that`s everybody`s heritage.

You mustn`t take any award so seriously.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it`s a degraded award.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.

Well, I`m a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

The competition is pretty rough these days.