Quotes by Jack Klugman - Page 1

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Lessons
Poverty
Privilege
Teach
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For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Morning
Acting
Years
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Easy
Old People
People
Badly
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Recognize
Tony
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Some days when I start to talk, my voice isnt strong. But then it warms up.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Strong
Voice
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Garfield
Idols
Saws
Smoke
Idol
John
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Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Careers
My Best Friend
Voice
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Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Art
Important
Window
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Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Doctor Who
Doctors
Give Me
Voice
Years
Doctor
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I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Broken
Broken Heart
Careers
Horse
One Day
Pinnacle
Race
Leg
Pasture
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I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Acting
World
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I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Enjoy
Enjoy Life
Teenager
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There was no sacrifice in acting for me, even when I was starving in New York. I went three days without eating. Charlie Bronson and I sold blood for $5 so that we could eat.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Acting
Eating
Sacrifice
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I love the theater because I love the live audience and when we went three cameras we have a live audience in the study so we had someone to play to and react to. That laughter.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Audience
Laughter
Study
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Walter Matthau made all the big money and he was wonderful as Oscar Madison on the stage. You couldn't beat him. I know because I replaced him on Broadway. He was just delightful.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Replaced
Wonderful
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I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Blow
Fate
Gamble
Horse
Love Time Good
Dealt
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I love the theater. I love the rehearsals. That's where you build a performance. That's your foundation. If you're gonna build a house, you start with the foundation. That makes the house strong. That's the way I build a character, from the foundation out.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Character
House
Strong
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Acting became my best friend. When I auditioned to get into college, the teacher said you belong here, Mr. Klugman, and to hear that word belong - I never belonged anywhere before - and suddenly I belonged in acting and it was so comfortable and I loved it.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Teacher
Acting
College
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I know know why ... if something not broke, don't fix it. Twelve Angry Men was the perfect movie. The cast was just the best cast you could possibly get together. The director was Sidney Lumet, the best director around. So why they made the remake I don't know.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Men
Perfect
Together
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We learned out craft. Acting is a craft and you must learn it. I see a lot of talent today in the kids but they don't know how to work. They don't know the craft of acting and you can only get that on the stage in theater. You cannot learn how to act in movies or in television.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Kids
Acting
Today
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Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, he offered me a lot of comedy series but I told him I'd already been the best comedy series around, "The Odd Couple," and so when he saw that I did Quincy he called my agent and said, Jack turns me down? All my good series and he ends up playing an undertaker." And this was the HEAD of ABC series.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Comedy
Couple
Odd
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The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they should be. As an actor you develop how angry you should be. You select how angry you should be. You listen to the other actor and then you react. In film, sometimes the other actor isn't even there. You have to play the scene. What I do is I call on my experience on the stage. I play the scene and I hope that I reach a certain level of integrity because that's what I learned on the stage.
Jack Klugman / Film Actor
Artist
Film
Integrity
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