Tony Randall Quotes

#1. I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

David Alan Basche

#2. I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

Christine Lavin

#3. A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

Jack Klugman

#4. I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Joseph Barbera

#5. Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

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#6. So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

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#7. Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

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#8. I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

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#9. We have too many actors for the jobs available.

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#10. Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

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#11. I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

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#12. Museums, I love museums.

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#13. The competition is pretty rough these days.

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#14. There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

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#15. Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

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#16. I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.

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#17. The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

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#18. We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

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#19. The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

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#20. Love isn't an opinion, it's a chemical reaction.

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#21. I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

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#22. Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

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#23. You mustn't take any award so seriously.

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#24. Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.

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#25. I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.

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#26. Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

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#27. Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

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#28. In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.

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#29. I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.

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#30. And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

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#31. Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

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