Bob Gunton Quotes

• Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

  Bob Gunton

  Redemption, Welcome, Ass

  "Fictional character: Warden Samuel Norton". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Most people recognize me from The Shawshank Redemption, but there is this subculture of people who have collected all 13 episodes of Greg The Bunny. And I'm still close to a number of the creative people, Dan Milano particularly, who created Warren The Ape and Greg The Bunny and all of those characters.

  Bob Gunton

  Character, Numbers, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies.

  Bob Gunton

  Fans, Comic, Bigs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

  Bob Gunton

  War, Order, Signatures

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

  Bob Gunton

  Father, School, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.

  Bob Gunton

  Mean, Oasis, California

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

  Bob Gunton

  Father, Son, Knights

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

  Bob Gunton

  Performances, Live Performance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

  Bob Gunton

  Catholic, Guilt, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.

  Bob Gunton

  Gun, Giving, Enemy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

  Bob Gunton

  Presidential, Firsts, Vote

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

  Bob Gunton

  Play, Guy, Roles

  "ACTORS' DIALOGUE: Bob Gunton & Anne Archer". Interview with Rob Kendt, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.

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• Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

  Bob Gunton

  Roles, Goering, Television

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