Rex Smith Quotes

#1. When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.

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#2. I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.

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#3. I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.

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#4. I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen.

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#5. I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.

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#6. I'm too much of a planner. I would have been a dentist; that's what I was thinking of being. Dr. Rex, open wide and say "Ah." I think I'd look good in a smock.

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#7. I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.

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#8. I was the only guy who is referred to as Mr. Smith in the New York Times and in the same week as Sexy Rexy in some teen magazine.

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#9. Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.

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#10. I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.

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#11. Movies are so weird. I don't believe anything until it's already done.

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#12. It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.

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#13. I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.

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#14. [My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

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#15. My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'

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