Bob Gunton Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

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#5. 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.

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

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#7. My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. 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.

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

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