Charles Grodin Quotes

#1. One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in 'Midnight Run,' and in a lot of things he's done. I think he's hilarious as the straight man, playing it real.

Andy Daly

#2. Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy.

John Carroll Lynch

#3. To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.

Sun Tzu

#4. 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.

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#5. I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find ... I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. So I feel that the experimental verdict is in: the world is weird, and we just have to learn to live with it.

Max Tegmark

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

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#8. 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

#9. You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

Zack Wamp

#10. Cancer is enough to get my attention.

Charles Grodin

#11. 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

#12. Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

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#13. 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

#14. 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.

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#15. When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.

Byron Katie

#16. Keep your vampire mitts off me. I'm not your friggin' blood toy.

Kim Harrison

#17. It seems there are no rich on death row.

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

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

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#20. I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

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#21. What would happen if everyone on Earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant? - Thomas Bennett (and many others)

Randall Munroe

#22. I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

John Mackey

#23. He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one of the few gifts he had given her that she actually used. He

Barbara Delinsky

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. You have to stop this. I don't want to lose you too. If you have to make a revolution, Make a small revolution.

Judy Budnitz

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

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

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#29. Highways are full of careless drivers who are always too close in front of you.

Sam Ewing