Quotes by Richard Masur - Page 1

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
Richard Masur / Actor
Opportunity
Giving
People
Prove
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I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.
Richard Masur / Actor
Guy
Handful
Survivor
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I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.
Richard Masur / Actor
Firsts
People
Saws
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Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
Richard Masur / Actor
Deaf
People
Speech
Deaf People
Profoundly
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There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
Richard Masur / Actor
Deaf
Different
People
Relation
Sound
Deaf People
Mental
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In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.
Richard Masur / Actor
Careers
Mentor
Real
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I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
Richard Masur / Actor
Firsts
Lucky
Right Time
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If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.
Richard Masur / Actor
Moving
Order
People
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I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job.
Richard Masur / Actor
Jobs
Men
Years
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I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.
Richard Masur / Actor
Actors
Character
Voice
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She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway.
Richard Masur / Actor
Impression
Looks
Scene
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I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.
Richard Masur / Actor
After School
Deaf
Direct
Connection
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No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.
Richard Masur / Actor
Argue
Demanding
Duke
False
Incredibly
Patty
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I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.
Richard Masur / Actor
Miracle
Would Be
Years
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I moved out to L.A. in July and Hot L Baltimore started in September or October. So I had done a few things. I'd done a Mary [Tyler Moore]. I'd done a Waltons. I hadn't done a Rhoda yet I don't think.
Richard Masur / Actor
Hot
July
Thinking
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I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.
Richard Masur / Actor
Community
Contact
Deaf
Issues
People
Community People Know
Deaf People
Discussed
Further
Insights
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Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.
Richard Masur / Actor
New York
Practice
Riding
Signing
Subway
Watched
Spell
Whereas
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For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.
Richard Masur / Actor
Being Real
Deaf
Mcdonalds
Thinking
Commercial
Disabilities
For Example
Jump
Mcdonald
More And More
Realized
Sales
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I'm grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can't do that. Not because it's beneath me. It's above me. It's beyond my resources.
Richard Masur / Actor
Opportunity
Grateful
Resources
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But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.
Richard Masur / Actor
Deaf
Instant
Mean
Mistaken
Not Talking
Realizing
Talking
Thinking
Life People Person
Project
Imagining
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The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.
Richard Masur / Actor
Deaf
Groups
Skills
Theatre
Valuable
Acquired
Favorable
National Theatre
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I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.
Richard Masur / Actor
Bored
Dolls
Fun
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Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.
Richard Masur / Actor
Believe
Black
Character
Qualified
Script
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I am so grateful for One Day At A Time, even though for years and years and years people would go, "Oh, you were on One Day At A Time." I [am on the show] for about seven months and then this haunts me for the rest of my life. No, I had no regrets.
Richard Masur / Actor
Grateful
Regret
Years
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You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.
Richard Masur / Actor
Opportunity
Access
Affirmative
Majority
Mean
Obligation
People
Producers
Steps
Disabilities
Vast
Hire
Include
Opportunities
Vast Majority
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I've worked with a ginormous number of people over the years. What happens when you've been around for a while, when you run into people whose work you've seen and liked and they have seen and liked your work, there's a sense of you kind of know each other even though you don't.
Richard Masur / Actor
Running
Numbers
Years
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I would never ever, ever, ever, ever do it again [All My Children]. It was the scariest thing I've ever done. I have such respect for people who do it, who can do it. What happened was they caught me at a good moment. I could use the money and this came along and it was with Susan and I thought, "Susan Lucci. I have to do this.
Richard Masur / Actor
Children
People
Use
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After three days of shooting with Donald [ Sutherland], I was the only one he worked with for the first three days of the movie [The Winter Of Our Discontent] because of the crazy schedule. We [shot] a lot of this stuff, some of it incredibly intense and emotional. We had never had a conversation during that whole time. We didn't have time.
Richard Masur / Actor
Crazy
Emotional
Winter
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I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and walk into this room which every seat is filled with young African-American boys and girls and they were in their teens. I went, "I'm in the wrong place. Why am I here? What's going on?"So I go in and meet Norman [Lear].
Richard Masur / Actor
Girl
New York
Boys
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I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.
Richard Masur / Actor
New York
Men
Team
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I mean God knows I've done tons of schlock during the course of my career and stuff that's been very low budget and really pressed for time, but I've never had an experience like this. I kept saying to people, "How do you do this?" I said to Susan [Lucci], "How do you do it?" I don't recall exactly what she answered me but it was something like "Close my eyes and think of England. You just do it."
Richard Masur / Actor
Eye
Mean
Thinking
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I did Bored To Death with Jason [Schwartzman] and Zach Galifianakis and those guys. I mean, how lucky can you be that you get to be the old guy? I get to be Robert Preston to them now. That's what I feel. My job is to pass on what Preston and other people gave to me, which was show up, take the work seriously, don't take yourself seriously, and have a good time and be of service. Be there to support.
Richard Masur / Actor
Jobs
Mean
People
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Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a residential not quite welfare but almost welfare hotel with a very bizarre collection of people.The desk clerk was played by Jamie Cromwell. That was his first big thing. Conchata Ferrell played April, the main of the two prostitutes, and my character didn't exist in the [stage] show.
Richard Masur / Actor
Character
People
Two
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Maybe if I'd gone in younger, I wouldn't have had that feeling, but I've seen an enormous amount of changes since the early-'70s in how this stuff is shot. I did the first TV movie ever shot in 18 days; before this film the normal length of shooting a TV movie was between 21 and 26 days. We shot a full-up, two-hour TV movie in 18 days with Donald Sutherland playing the lead, who had never worked on television before.
Richard Masur / Actor
Feelings
Gone
Two
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After we did [All In The Family], that ended up being a real love fest all around. Me and Norman, Norman [Lear] and me, Rob Reiner, everybody liked everybody. So about six or seven months later I moved out to L.A. and I got a call that Norman wanted to see me. I came in and he said "ABC has given me a property that they just optioned to make into a TV series. It's from a play called Hot L Baltimore, and I want you to be in it."
Richard Masur / Actor
Play
Real
Seven Months
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I still to this day maintain that in that million-and-a-half feet of film [Heaven's Gate] that we shot, we thought we were making a great American film. I honestly believe that Michael [Cimino] was under a tremendous amount of pressure, and Michael's response to pressure from what I saw was to double down and to get more aggressive and to get more kind of arrogant, but I don't think it was real. I think it was the response to pressure.
Richard Masur / Actor
Believe
Real
Thinking
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People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I are playing best friends our whole lives. We met each other for 10 seconds the night before and we're sitting on a beach lining up a shot that we shoot a few minutes later, never having had a conversation with each other and then end up going skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean buck-ass naked, not knowing who the other person is.
Richard Masur / Actor
Ocean
Beach
Real
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The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing what it would be like because you can't stop yourself from hearing your own breath or your own heartbeat. You can not remove sound entirely from your life. You can get a sense of what being blind is like by closing and covering your eyes which provides a source of empathy because we can all project ourselves to that. But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't.
Richard Masur / Actor
Eye
People
Thinking
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