Quotes by Ted Cassidy - Page 1

Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.
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Crawling
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I never mention my size when I'm after a job in show business.
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Show Business
Mention
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I get no amusement having people eyeball me because of my size.
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Amusement
Me People Because
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If things get slow, I can always drop around to the gym and dunk a few.
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Drop
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I did play semi-pro ball for a time. It was the line of least resistance.
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Resistance
Time Ball Play
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You will probably be hearing more about this schoolboy. His name is Wilt Chamberlain.
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Chamberlain
Schoolboy
Wilt
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Only as a child is one truly innocent. When he grows, he must pull on one veneer after another.
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Grows
Innocent
Veneer
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I've been a tough sailor, a foppish-type landscape gardener, a French villain, a circus strongman.
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Circus
Gardener
Landscape
Sailor
Villain
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I don't get the sense of doing anything of national importance. I travel to the studio, work and go home.
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Work Home Travel
Go Home
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An actor feels the dilemma of being a human being and through his art tries to explain the condition of man.
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Dilemma
Condition
Tries
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There's not too much opportunity to do that in ordinary life... there's not too much call for hatchet throwers.
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Ordinary Life
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I turned 30 and decided if I was going to try acting I had better try or wind up still holding a desk job at 50.
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Wind
Desk
Holding
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I was lucky. I missed the struggle. I don't feel I have to pay anyone back for the miserable years. I never had them.
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Miserable
Missed
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That's one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don't have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and producers.
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Pet
Big Guys
Producers
Apparently
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It was nice to be working steadily and piling up some money in the bank but there really wasn't much to do except walk around and... well, be Lurch.
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Bank
Piling
Steadily
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I figure, I want to get a role on my ability, not my size. And anyway, after the director or producer sees me, he remembers what I look like, anyway.
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Remembers
Sees
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I think kids like Lurch because he's kind of an earthbound superman. They know he's physically strong and they sense that he's a gentle man who loves kids.
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Gentle
Man Know Who
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It doesn't matter if you're big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least I hope he does, because that's the craft.
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Deep Inside
Ugly
Craft
Hamlet
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I didn't only play Lurch. I also was 'Thing,' the hand that came up and on-camera every now and then. You should try acting with only one hand sometime. Great discipline.
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Discipline
Now And Then
Sometime
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Getting Lurch's character straightened out was fun because I was brand new to professional film acting. I had only been in radio up till then as an announcer or a program director.
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Brand New
Film Acting
Announcer
Till
Straightened
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You know, I can't tell you that I'm very fond of anything I've done, including - and especially- 'The Addams Family.' That's an albatross around my neck that I've got to get rid of somehow.
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Fond
Rid
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I turned down a part in 'Petticoat Junction.' They wanted me to play a circus giant. I didn't want to take that step into type casting. I don't want to play freaks and science-fiction monsters.
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Casting
Circus
Junction
Monsters
Freaks
Giant
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Acting Is unlike any other profession in the world. It's a succession of jobs. When 'The Addams Family' ends, however good you may be, when that job ends, you end. My gettng the show was a million-to-one shot.
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Succession
Family Good World
Unlike
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Lurch's quietness is a result of personal dignity. He appreciates things of quality. His greatest joy is playing Bach on the harpsichord, and he recognizes the music as the result of 'a great human effort to express.
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Dignity
Quietness
Appreciates
Bach
Human Effort
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Max Baer called me one morning and told me that Carl Foreman was making a movie based on the book 'Mackenna's Gold' and he was sure that I was right for one of the parts. He was so ebullient about it that he bent my ear for 20 minutes.
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Bent
Max
Ear
Foreman
One Morning
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I got to know the cast pretty well. Not so much Leonard Nimoy, I got to know William Shatner pretty well. They are a pretty good gang. The production company that made 'Star Trek' is the kind of production company that likes to have fun.
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Gang
William
Have Fun
Pretty Good
Production Company
Shatner
Star Trek
Trek
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Whenever I'd find myself talking to someone in the kitchen of their home, I'd automatically rest my arm on the refrigerator, simply because it was most convenient. I had to watch myself pretty close - I didn't mind the dusty sleeve, but that glare from the hostess was something else!
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Convenient
Glare
Arm
Automatically
Dusty
Hostess
Refrigerator
Sleeve
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