Dick York famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds,
-- Dick York

#Heart #People #Mind
I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.
-- Dick York

#Able #Gestalt #Want
I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.
-- Dick York

#New York #Cowboy #Opposites
I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.
-- Dick York

#Pain #Work #Sleep
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
-- Dick York

#Time #Sleep #Giving
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.
-- Dick York

#Music #Air #Games
We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.
-- Dick York

#Money #People #Pay
I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.
-- Dick York

#Love #Blessed #People
I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.
-- Dick York

#Life #Musical #Steps
When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
-- Dick York

#Teaching #School #Wind
I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.
-- Dick York

#Pain #Coffee #Exercise
Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.
-- Dick York

#Confused #Looks #Way
I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.
-- Dick York

#Summer #Chill #Middle
My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
-- Dick York

#Pain #Long #Giving
Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.
-- Dick York

#Firefighter #Theatre #Radio
After all, didnt I blow a magnificent career?
-- Dick York

#Blow #Careers #Magnificent
I was seeing everything through pain.
-- Dick York

#Pain

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