Quotes by Lorne Greene - Page 2

A woman, by nature, is more emotional than a man and is not equipped to approach certain responsibilities with the authority that has been inherent in man.
Lorne Greene /
Authority
Inherent
Nature Man Woman
Equipped
Responsibilities
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I've been on a ranch. I've been in outer space. For a short, unhappy period I was a detective. I've also played Brutus and 14 or 15 other Shakespearean roles.
Lorne Greene /
Outer Space
Unhappy
Detective
Outer
Ranch
Shakespearean
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Every once in a while I get a fan letter from someone about thinking he or she saw me in an episode of an old western or police series. The writers are probably right.
Lorne Greene /
Episode
He Or She
Letter
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The father-son relationship is the strongest there is. It's been the basis of drama all the way back to the Bible. Notice, Abraham wasn't told to sacrifice a daughter.
Lorne Greene /
Abraham
Sacrifice
Strongest
Notice
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The Smothers Brothers have a good show, bul CBS is going to have to spend an awful lot of money to keep it going with top guest stars. A variety show is very expensive.
Lorne Greene /
Expensive
Variety
Awful Lot
Cbs
Guest
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I left Canada in 1953 because I could find nothing very satisfying about delivering commercial pitches on camera. I felt the whole atmosphere of TV in Canada was listless.
Lorne Greene /
Atmosphere
Canada
Delivering
Satisfying
Pitches
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My wife, Nancy, and I like to meet new people, renew old friendships and accept new challenges. At home we like to have small dinner parties. Sundays we have buffet brunches.
Lorne Greene /
Nancy
New Challenges
Buffet
Dinner Parties
Friendships
Renew
Sundays
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I wanted to do a wildlife series. I kept remembering those days in Algonquin Park, drifting along in the bottom of a canoe, and I wanted to transfer that feeling to the viewers.
Lorne Greene /
Drifting
Viewers
Wildlife
Canoe
Park
Remembering
Transfer
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When NBC switched the series in September to Tuesday nights opposite 'Maude' it died. 'Bonanza' had become too familiar with a Sunday audience. Tuesday just wasn't the day for it.
Lorne Greene /
Familiar
Nbc
September
Sunday
Tuesday
Nights
Switched
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People go to see Shakespeare plays over and over, not because the story is new, but because they want to see how a certain actor will perform in a role that is familiar to the audience.
Lorne Greene /
Familiar
People Will New
People New Will
Shakespeare
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Of great importance to my outlook on life is the opportunuty I get to meet people on various appearances. I suppose I could devote every weekend to appearances and i do try to make as many as I can.
Lorne Greene /
Outlook
Life Great People
Appearances
Devote
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My daughter has a couple of those small calculators, but she never uses them. I think they're fine if you need to double-check your figures, but people really shouldn't let them replace basic math skills.
Lorne Greene /
Figures
Math
Your People Never
People Your Never
Uses
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We still have slavery of all kinds - slavery of thought, slavery of ideas, slavery of cultureand I think 'Roots' exemplifies, in a very strong way, man's need to think for himself, feel for himself, do for himself.
Lorne Greene /
Roots
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If your cat's up a tree, you call the fire department. If someone's hurt, you call the fire department. If there's a mudslide or your house is on fire, you call the fire department. They're our first line of defense.
Lorne Greene /
Department
Tree
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In one part of my mind, I regret that there were 15 years spent not acting. But in the other part of my mind, I have no regrets. If I had been acting, I wouldn't have been able to do so many of the things I have done.
Lorne Greene /
No Regrets
Regret
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I was typecast in 'Bonanza.' NBC officials - didn't realize this for about a year - had seen me in a 'Wagon Train' as a patriarch with a son. So when we started 'Bonanza,' they had me playing the father as a 65- year-old.
Lorne Greene /
Nbc
Officials
About A Year
Typecast
Father Me Son
Wagon
Year-Old
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I finally got help after a tennis match with my wife. I couldn't hear her across the net. She finally smashed her racket against a rock. That got my attention. I didn't know I was going deaf, I thought people were talking too softly.
Lorne Greene /
Deaf
Racket
Net
Smashed
Softly
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I think the hearing loss started with 'Bonanza.' Sometimes the director would put us in a box canyon and have us fire our guns. The sound would really reverberate in a box canyon. It took me a long time to realize what was coming on me.
Lorne Greene /
Time Fire Me
Canyon
Guns
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The woman who rules her roost is one of two things: she's illogical, therefore spoiling her children, or she's an iron-fisted disciplinarian, adopting the attitude that rightfully belongs to the man and losing the precious softness that is her birthright.
Lorne Greene /
Adopting
Birthright
Illogical
Roost
Softness
Belongs
Disciplinarian
Precious
Rightfully
Spoiling
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Bonanza' has given me the springboard to dive in so many other things. You'll hear no complaints from me. Certainly, there are times when I would like to have one spoonful of clam chowder before being asked to sign autographs, but that's part of the price.
Lorne Greene /
Autographs
Complaints
Dive
Spoonful
Springboard
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Children are keenly aware of every situation where mother figuratively wears the pants in the home, and they're scornful of her for it. By the same token, the same attitude on the part of their father commands respect, even If it may at times engender fear.
Lorne Greene /
Pants
Commands
Figuratively
Scornful
Token
Wears
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My feeling is that no series should run over five years, but I'm glad that 'Bonanza' went as long as it did. I do resent the fact that in the last year, the network switched us from our old slot on Sunday nights to Tuesdays without much of a promotional campaign.
Lorne Greene /
Last Year
Resent
Sunday
Nights
Slot
Switched
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When my father and I were off in the woods or off fishing, we were communicating all the time. We didn't catch many fish and my father was a pretty good fisherman but he just like to take one or two fish and then we would make camp and broil those fish and eat them.
Lorne Greene /
Fishing
Woods
Fish
One Or Two
Pretty Good
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For 14 years I had that run in Canada as a newscaster. When I decided to quit in 1953 I was making more money than the prime minister. Then I was a freelance actor for six years in Canada, the U.S., and England. Then 'Bonanza' came along and I had another 14 year run.
Lorne Greene /
Canada
Prime
Prime Minister
Freelance
Minister
Quit
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I played Big Brother in a Studio One presentation of '1984,' and that should have marked me as a villain to American producers. But I went straight from that to placing a saint - St, Peter in 'The Silver Chalice,' which may have been one of the worst movies ever made.
Lorne Greene /
Peter
Presentation
Producers
Saint
Silver
Villain
Big Brother
Marked
Placing
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In 'Battlestar' I'm the military and spiritual leader as well as a father. As a military commander I can treat Apollo only as I treat everyone else. At certain times, Adama has to be the commander and give the necessary orders, no matter how much it may pain him to do so.
Lorne Greene /
Apollo
Commander
Everyone Else
Orders
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In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power and wealth and standing, was able to enslave others. Don't torget, mankind has had wars where we sent armies to enslave other countries; history is full of slavery.
Lorne Greene /
Mankind
Other Countries
Scotland
Armies
History Power World
Enslave
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I remember going out alone in a canoe. Somebody told me to lie in the bottom of the canoe and just drift. It was a small lake and I was perfectly safe. So I did that, and I drifted. It was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, I heard a loon cry the first time I ever heard that marvelous sound.
Lorne Greene /
Marvelous
Peaceful
Alone Time Me
Canoe
Drift
Lake
Perfectly
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There's a million and one things an actor can do with a villain. He can go for all kinds of quirks and tricks. The hero is much harder to define for an actor. When you play a straight role or a hero, you're kind of stuck, It's much more difficult to give a good guy interesting qualities or to make him unusual.
Lorne Greene /
Unusual
Villain
Define
Qualities
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Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them there were 'indentured laborers,' taken out of jails in England and Scotland and so forth and brought to the colonies to work out their terms in the fields and then be set free.
Lorne Greene /
Laborers
Scotland
Colonies
Forth
Jails
Slaves
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The average American husband has relinquished his responsibility as head of his household. Though the wife is partly at fault, he is mostly to blame. I'm not suggesting that women should return to the subservient position before their emancipation when they were virtually slaves of their husbands. But freedom for women can be overdone.
Lorne Greene /
Blame
Emancipation
Household
Subservient
Suggesting
Average American
Husbands
Overdone
Partly
Relinquished
Slaves
Virtually
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