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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

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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

Topics: Actor Broadway Character Demands Even Every Every Time First Five Gets Just Keep Laugh Little Minutes More Night Out Place Prayer Raising Say Stage Stakes Starting Time Two Want Who You Your

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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

Topics: Come Family Father Middle-Class Mother Pianist Salesman Very Were Wonderful

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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

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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

Topics: Actor Came Companies Expanding First Just Lots Needed New Out Regional School Sudden Theater Time I Came

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It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.

~Charles Kimbrough

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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

Topics: Before Brown Frankly Had Hindsight Honest Illusion Job Like Murphy Nice Now Our People Pray Pray For Profession Successful Talented Talented People Terribly Think To Be Honest Top Two Us Worked Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: May 23rd, 1936

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