Parker Stevenson Quotes

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• I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want

  Parker Stevenson

  Thinking, Vacation, Phones

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• You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

  Parker Stevenson

  Air, Done, Television

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• I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now

  Parker Stevenson

  Years, Five

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• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  Parker Stevenson

  Beach, Sunday, Water

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• I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

  Parker Stevenson

  Mistake, Classic, Made

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• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

  Parker Stevenson

  Play, Done, Television

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• I still think of myself really as a New Yorker

  Parker Stevenson

  Thinking, Stills, New Yorkers

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• I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible

  Parker Stevenson

  Cutting, Boys, Play

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• Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

  Parker Stevenson

  Would Be, Accepted

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• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  Parker Stevenson

  Dark, California, Islands

  "Maine (Celebrate the States)". Book by Margaret Dornfeld and Joyce Hart, 2010.

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• The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

  Parker Stevenson

  Boys, Batteries, Return

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

  Parker Stevenson

  Children, Memories, Dad

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• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can

  Parker Stevenson

  Morning, Work, Acting

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• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot

  Parker Stevenson

  Stars, Boys, Careers

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• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  Parker Stevenson

  War, Thinking, People

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• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam

  Parker Stevenson

  Daze, Vietnam, Kind

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• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there

  Parker Stevenson

  Color, California, House

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• My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

  Parker Stevenson

  Photography, Architecture, Interest

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• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  Parker Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

  Parker Stevenson

  Sports, Travel, People

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• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much

  Parker Stevenson

  New York, Wall, School

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• I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

  Parker Stevenson

  Jewels, House, Architect

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• Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17

  Parker Stevenson

  People, Guy, Age

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• What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

  Parker Stevenson

  Real, Listening, Lines

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another

  Parker Stevenson

  Want Something, Stranger, Grinning

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