Charles Kimbrough famous quotes

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
-- Charles Kimbrough

#School #Actors #Firsts

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
-- Charles Kimbrough

#Mother #Father #Class

Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.
-- Charles Kimbrough

#Jobs #Nice #Successful

I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?
-- Charles Kimbrough

#Feelings #Acting #Want

I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.
-- Charles Kimbrough

#Self #Hands #Guy

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.
-- Charles Kimbrough

#Prayer #Character #Night

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.