Edward Herrmann Quotes

#1. You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

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#2. I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.

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#3. Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.

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#4. I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

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#5. Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

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#6. I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

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#7. Cats are hard to train, but they can train them.

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#8. How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

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#9. Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

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#10. I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

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#11. I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

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#12. The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

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#13. Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.

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#14. If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

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#15. I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

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