Ed Asner famous quotes

03-24-2025

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.
-- Ed Asner

#People #Black #Want
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
-- Ed Asner

#Funny #Thank You #Kids
There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.
-- Ed Asner

#World #Hunger #Hungry
As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.
-- Ed Asner

#Peace #War #What If
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.
-- Ed Asner

#Men #Interesting #Library
We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves.
-- Ed Asner

#Mother #Loss #Quality
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
-- Ed Asner

#School #Editors #Careers
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
-- Ed Asner

#Jobs #Kansas #Cities
Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
-- Ed Asner

#College #Play #Acting
Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
-- Ed Asner

#Adulation #Find Me
It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.
-- Ed Asner

#Athlete #Years #Hot
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
-- Ed Asner

#Character #Essentials #Needs
I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
-- Ed Asner

#Careers #Way #Enough
I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
-- Ed Asner

#Jesus #Two #Work Out
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.
-- Ed Asner

#War #Political #Feelings
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
-- Ed Asner

#Law #Acting #Watches
I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
-- Ed Asner

#Men #Voice #Limits
I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
-- Ed Asner

#Years #Actors #Method
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
-- Ed Asner

#Beautiful #Musical #Roles
I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.
-- Ed Asner

#Economic Inequality #Long #Lasts
The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.
-- Ed Asner

#Hunting #Dating #Treasure
I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.
-- Ed Asner

#Strong #Adventure #Thinking
To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'
-- Ed Asner

#May #Mindset #Difficult
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
-- Ed Asner

#Jobs #Moving #Acting

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