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Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: Acting Apply Audience Camera Front Get Good Good Acting Humor Just Sense Sense Of Humor Thinking Trust You

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I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: About Because Being Coming Communicating Confused Doing Enough Interested Kidding Me People Rather Really Say Straightforward Take Up Want Where Wonder Worthwhile Would

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With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: About Am Care Complete Complete Opposite Deeply Like Manipulative Me Opposite Personal Personal Relationships Relationships Religion Them I Am I Care

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I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: Accept Away Blown Copied Did Done Five Minutes People People Say Recently Said Say Something Somewhere Took Up

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I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: Alone Attempt Dare Even Observation Read Torah Witty

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I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: Disrespectful Guy Mean Never Wise

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I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: Acting Even Miss Movies Plays See Television Watch

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I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: Against Any Anything Civilization Goes Going Government People Protecting Regulations Security Sell Want You

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I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: Away Baby Big Big One Doing Finally First Movies Nothing Notice Right Right Away Started Time While You

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I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

~Charles Grodin

Topics: Actor Between Comedic Comic Considered Dramatic Enjoy Good Hardest Hardest Thing People Ratio The Hardest Thing Thing Things Understand Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: April 21st, 1935

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