Zimbalist Quotes

#1. During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.

Gore Vidal

#2. Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

George Carlin

#3. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#4. I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#5. It makes my skin crawl when people tell me, 'Don't worry, you'll get another series.' Their expectations have little to do with mine.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#6. I'm a conservative Republican.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

#7. The busier you get, the more you get done.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#8. Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#9. Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#10. As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#11. I've grown up with dogs and love dogs.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#12. I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#13. We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#14. Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.

Andrew Zimbalist

#15. You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#16. I'm never going to be the woman behind the man.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#17. My upbringing was very un-Hollywood ... I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#18. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

#19. I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#20. When you learn that you inspired someone, it's a huge honor.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

#21. I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

#22. I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#23. I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#24. Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .

Andrew Zimbalist

#25. I studied dancing a little bit when I was young.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#26. If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

#27. If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#28. I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#29. I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's ... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'

Stephanie Zimbalist

#30. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#31. I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

#32. My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#33. People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.

Andrew Zimbalist

#34. I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.

Andrew Zimbalist

#35. I enjoy my time alone.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#36. I'm more interested in life than life-style. Life-style means you have to drive a certain car.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#37. People don't want to see wrinkles, because if they see wrinkles in actors then they have to face that they have wrinkles, too. They'd rather see perfection up there. And so then you get rocket scientists who are 22 years old.

Stephanie Zimbalist