Ed Asner Quotes

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  Ed Asner

  Funny, Thank You, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

  Ed Asner

  People, Black, Want

  "Ed Asner Explains Hollywood Silence on Obama, Syria: They 'Don't Want to Feel Anti-Black'". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 6, 2013.

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• There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

  Ed Asner

  Food Banks, Ending Hunger, World

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• We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves.

  Ed Asner

  Mother, Loss, Quality

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• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  Ed Asner

  Jobs, Moving, Acting

  Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

  Ed Asner

  Hunting, Dating, Treasure

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• The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

  Ed Asner

  Men, Interesting, Library

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• As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

  Ed Asner

  Peace, War, What If

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• I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

  Ed Asner

  Economic Inequality, Long, Lasts

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• I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

  Ed Asner

  Jesus, Two, Work Out

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• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  Ed Asner

  Beautiful, Musical, Roles

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• I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

  Ed Asner

  Strong, Adventure, Thinking

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• All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

  Ed Asner

  Warren Buffet, Should, Buffett

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going into journalism?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I wouldn't.' I said, 'Well, why not?' He said, 'You can't make a living.'

  Ed Asner

  Teacher, Men, Why Not

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. April 10, 2009.

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• [on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really worried about changing over from a three-camera, half-hour comedy to a one-camera, full-hour drama. The audience wasn't ready for the switch - even CBS billed us in their promos as a comedy. In fact, the whole thing was impossible. But we didn't know that.

  Ed Asner

  Drama, Cameras, Transition

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

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• The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

  Ed Asner

  Character, Essentials, Needs

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• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  Ed Asner

  Jobs, Cities, Kansas City

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• Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

  Ed Asner

  War, Political, Feelings

  "Ed Asner on crotchety roles from Lou Grant to Up". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

  Ed Asner

  Adulation, Find Me

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• Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

  Ed Asner

  College, Play, Acting

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• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  Ed Asner

  Careers, Way, Enough

  "Ed Asner is 'Up' for taking on more roles". www.today.com. May 28, 2009.

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• I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

  Ed Asner

  Men, Voice, Limits

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• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  Ed Asner

  Years, Actors, Method

  "Interview: Ed Asner of ‘The Gathering’ (and ‘Up’)". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 22, 2009.

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• To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'

  Ed Asner

  May, Mindset, Difficult

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

  Ed Asner

  Athlete, Years, Hot

  Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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