Parker Stevenson Quotes

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• I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want

  Parker Stevenson

  Thinking, Vacation, Phones

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• You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

  Parker Stevenson

  Air, Done, Television

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• I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now

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  Years, Five

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• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

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  Beach, Sunday, Water

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• I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

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  Mistake, Classic, Made

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• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

  Parker Stevenson

  Play, Done, Television

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• I still think of myself really as a New Yorker

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  Thinking, Stills, New Yorkers

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• I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible

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  Cutting, Boys, Play

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• My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

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  Photography, Architecture, Interest

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• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there

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  Color, California, House

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• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam

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  Daze, Vietnam, Kind

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• Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

  Parker Stevenson

  Would Be, Accepted

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• The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

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  Boys, Batteries, Return

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

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  Children, Memories, Dad

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• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  Parker Stevenson

  Dark, California, Islands

  "Maine (Celebrate the States)". Book by Margaret Dornfeld and Joyce Hart, 2010.

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• Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another

  Parker Stevenson

  Want Something, Stranger, Grinning

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• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

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  Real, Listening, Lines

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

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  Sports, Travel, People

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• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much

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  New York, Wall, School

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• I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

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  Jewels, House, Architect

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• Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17

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  People, Guy, Age

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• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me

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  School, Two, California

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• I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

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  Wisdom, Would Be, Interviews

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• I never thought of myself as being that good looking, I was an actor, people saw me on television, and then they start to think you're good looking because of that presentation. I was no better looking before the show, than after - and before the TV show I couldn't get a date to save my life. So what changed? Did I suddenly become more good looking? No. I got lucky, I got a TV show. That's what happened.

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  Thinking, Tv Shows, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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