Rod Taylor Quotes

• I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

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  Birthday, Party, Night

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• The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

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  Beauty, Successful, Facts

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• I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

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  Rocks, Hunters, Lucky

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• I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

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  Roles, Small Roles, Very Good

  "Rod Taylor, Star of 'The Birds' and 'The Time Machine,' Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 8, 2015.

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• The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Sweet

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• I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

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  Wisdom, Artist, Feet

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• Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

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  Change, Names, Wanted

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• Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

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  Art, Six Months, Void

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• Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

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  Thinking, Mind, Backyards

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• I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

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  Struggle, Age, Radio

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• To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

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  Paper, Feels, Performers

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• But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

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  Boxing, Surfing, Clubs

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• I'm not doing my work for constant success.

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  Success, Constant

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• I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

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  Drama, Night, Mark

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• I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

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  Friends, Dream, Giving

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• I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

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  Trying, Actors, Praying

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• So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

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  Actors, Radio, Auditions

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• Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

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  Art, Kids, College

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• When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

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  Grateful, Successful, Thinking

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• When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

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  Jobs, Actors, Firsts

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• I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

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  Australia, Looks, Actors

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• In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.

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  Jobs, Real, Men

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• To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

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  Self, Degrees

  "Rod Taylor, Star of 'The Birds' and 'The Time Machine,' Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Acting is something I love.

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  Acting

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• I am proud to be an actor.

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  Actors, Proud

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