Grodin Charles 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

The world around them ceased to exist, and they stared at each other accross the tumult, communicating thoughts that could not be put into words. His eyes never strayed from her face, as if he were trying to read every line to understand what he saw there. She held her breath, almost unable to bear the intesne rush of ecstasy she felt when his eyes were upon her. "I love you." Her lips formed the words she was too overjoyed to speak. — Jennifer Beckstrand

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 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 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

One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front lines helping people. They fund the big philanthropies. They're safe. — Rick Santorum

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music. — Ziggy Marley

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

TALLAHASSEE LASSIE was a record I wrote with my mom. A number of other famous groups have also recorded it such as Led Zeppelin (I understand they are currently touring) and several other English bands and also some various "Punk Bands". — Freddy Cannon

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

That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy. — Thomas Jefferson

Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter — Patrick F. McManus

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

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

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

The Lord is perfect and patient. He knows exact when to act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability. — Theodore Roosevelt

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