Grodin Quotes & Sayings

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

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah. — Charles Grodin

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

Cancer is enough to get my attention. — Charles Grodin

I love Viacom. I love CBS. And so I don't want to die. I have a will to live. The same will to win that I've always had. And - I'm gonna fight death as long as I can. I like it here. I don't want to go anywhere else. — Sumner Redstone

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. — Charles Grodin

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears. — Charles Grodin

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. — Charles Grodin

They had something, that generation, he thought. They didn't doubt themselves. They knew what life was, and where they belonged in it. Not like us. — Helen Dunmore

I find it somewhat ironic that many conservatives in the United States are adamant about securing the border against immigrants who will likely take jobs that few Americans want, while at the same time expressing little concern that the virtual border is left completely open to higher-skill workers who take jobs that Americans definitely do want. — Martin Ford

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

When anything can happen, everything matters. — Ian McEwan

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

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. — Charles Grodin

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

It seems there are no rich on death row. — Charles Grodin

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy. — Charles Grodin

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them — Paulo Coelho

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television. — Charles Grodin

The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

I definitely have been foolish. — Sienna Miller

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap. — George Sampson

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