Quotes by Gavin Macleod - Page 1

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Jobs
Thank You
Bread
Tables
Thank God
Table
Thank
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I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Television
Twenties
Twenty Somethings
Years
Twenty
Years And Years
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Little Money
Ten
Nicely
Six Days
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Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Opportunity
Needs
Second Chance
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Cruise
Identical
Islands
Pacific
Princess
Ships
Two
Island
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Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant’s heart,' I thought.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Audrey
Heart
Suitcases
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It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Glory
Guy
Hair
Tough
Worried
Newsroom
Ted
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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Opportunity
Fortunate
My Future
Way
New Opportunities
Opportunities
Poking
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Enough Time
People
Priorities
Should Have
Time Marriage People
Hour
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Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Actors
Newspapers
Nice
Visibility
Article
Happening
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Cruise
Growing
Princess
World
Represent
Fastest
Result
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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Eleven
Mindless
Nine
People
Program
Ships
Ten
Twelve
Two
Years
Forth
Nicely
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Box
Emmy
First One
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This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Effort
Group Effort
Theatre
Big Star
Just Be
Unit
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Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Men
Character
Crazy
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We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Mexico
Explore
Finally
Globally
So Many Years
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Long
Play
Series
Theatre
Shot
Love Long Way
Long Series
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Morning
Night
Prime Time
Saturday
Sunday
Nights
Evenings
New Ones
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
War
Junk
Play
Years
Bald
War Movies
Years And Years
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Moving
Play
Successful
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We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
All Night
Exceptional
First Time
Mean
Night
Play
Sat
Time God Good
God Time Good
Ladies
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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Kids
Behaviour
Careful
Country
Other Countries
Point Of View
Program
Views
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It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Cutting
Location
Particular
Ships
Stars
Cut
Depended
Except
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Busy
Couple
Interviews
Media
Only Time
Thinking
Time Busy People
Bay
Time People Media
Couples
Marry
Media People
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Character
Past
Thinking
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That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Actors
Anxiety
Lines
Nervous
Talking
Anxieties
Forth
Reasons
Table
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I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Brilliant
Funeral
Laughing
Mary
Scene
Together
Shot
Camera
Checked
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Love exciting and new, come aboard, hes expecting you. If you listen to the lyrics its all about Jesus. Its a whole new approach to that song. I do that whenever I get into a group of believers, because it gave me - I said, wow, the Lord didnt tell me about that until how many years we were off the air. And its really about Come aboard, Jesus will take care of you. Theres a new love waiting for you. A love that will never let you down.
Gavin Macleod / Character Actor
Jesus
Song
Years
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