Actor Quotes

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.

So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.

Sheridan is still there, he's the president of the Alliance, everything that was in place when the series is there is still there, we're just moving the camera over a couple of light years.

Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

I had also done a little disc jockeying.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years.

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.