Hal Linden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
-- Hal Linden

#Golf #Play #Violin
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
-- Hal Linden

#Moving #Starting Over #Scratches
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
-- Hal Linden

#People #Hearing #Problem
I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?
-- Hal Linden

#Golf #Challenges #Get Better
The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto the page and some of that actually makes it onto the screen.
-- Hal Linden

#Real #Acting #Lucky
I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.
-- Hal Linden

#Song #Heart #Men

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

Hal Linden famous quotes

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