Charles Grodin Quotes

• Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

  Charles Grodin

  Harder

  Charles Grodin (1993). “How I Get Through Life: A Wise and Witty Guide”, Quill

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• Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

  Charles Grodin

  Hurt, Principles, Doe

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• It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

  Charles Grodin

  Answers, Care, Hard

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• Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

  Charles Grodin

  Thinking, Acting, Cameras

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• It seems there are no rich on death row.

  Charles Grodin

  Rich, Death Row, Seems

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• I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

  Charles Grodin

  Confused, People, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 24, 2002.

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• Cancer is enough to get my attention.

  Charles Grodin

  Cancer, Survival, Attention

  Charles Grodin (1993). “How I Get Through Life: A Wise and Witty Guide”, Quill

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• I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

  Charles Grodin

  Play, Missing, Acting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

  Charles Grodin

  People, Done, Accepting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

  Charles Grodin

  Wise, Mean, Guy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

  Charles Grodin

  Witty, Torah, Dare

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

  Charles Grodin

  People, Actors, Ratios

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• With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

  Charles Grodin

  Opposites, Care, Smoothies

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• I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

  Charles Grodin

  Government, Civilization, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 24, 2002.

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• I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

  Charles Grodin

  New York, Crazy, Book

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