"I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg."

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Source : "Interview: Ed Asner of ‘The Gathering’ (and ‘Up’)". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 22, 2009.

Ed Asner

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“There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."”
“He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.”
“I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.”
“Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.”
“Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.”
“Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.”
“Learn to live in this world with self-respect”

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