Tony Randall famous quotes

03-25-2025

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
-- Tony Randall

#Courage #Strong #Men
Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father
-- Tony Randall

#Girl #Mother #Father
I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields
-- Tony Randall

#Thinking #Bob #Shields
I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.
-- Tony Randall

#Wife #Parent #Wish
Love isn't an opinion, it's a chemical reaction.
-- Tony Randall

#Love Is #Opinion #Chemistry
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.
-- Tony Randall

#Thinking #Aggravation #Awards
Museums, I love museums.
-- Tony Randall

#Museums
Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.
-- Tony Randall

#Morning #Fun #Fog
The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.
-- Tony Randall

#Actors #Young #Coming Out
You mustn't take any award so seriously.
-- Tony Randall

#Awards
Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.
-- Tony Randall

#Nuts #Play #Tape
I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him
-- Tony Randall

#Believe #Air #Spokes
I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting
-- Tony Randall

#Acting
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
-- Tony Randall

#Clever #Awards #Publicity
Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.
-- Tony Randall

#Theatre #These Days #Very Good
Awards are only a publicity gimmick.
-- Tony Randall

#Awards #Gimmicks #Publicity
In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University
-- Tony Randall

#Facts #Used #University
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company
-- Tony Randall

#Goal #Theatre #Acting
Sooner or later, we sell out for money
-- Tony Randall

#Sooner Or Later
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country
-- Tony Randall

#Country #Government #Towns
And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage
-- Tony Randall

#Play #Greek #Way
Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni
-- Tony Randall

#Play #Wind #Wonderful
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier
-- Tony Randall

#Years #Theatre #Actors
The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.
-- Tony Randall

#Real #Play #Theatre

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