Tony Randall's Quotes

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.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

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.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

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.

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

Museums, I love museums.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

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

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

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.

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.