Richard Masur Quotes

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• I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.

  Richard Masur

  Issues, People, Community

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• But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Thinking, Talking

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• You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

  Richard Masur

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing what it would be like because you can't stop yourself from hearing your own breath or your own heartbeat. You can not remove sound entirely from your life. You can get a sense of what being blind is like by closing and covering your eyes which provides a source of empathy because we can all project ourselves to that. But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't.

  Richard Masur

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

  Richard Masur

  People, Speech, Deaf

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• For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.

  Richard Masur

  Thinking, Mcdonalds, Being Real

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• You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Opportunity, People

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• I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.

  Richard Masur

  New York, Team, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

  Richard Masur

  New York, Practice, Riding

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• There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

  Richard Masur

  People, Sound, Different

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• I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

  Richard Masur

  People, Saws, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.

  Richard Masur

  Character, Voice, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I are playing best friends our whole lives. We met each other for 10 seconds the night before and we're sitting on a beach lining up a shot that we shoot a few minutes later, never having had a conversation with each other and then end up going skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean buck-ass naked, not knowing who the other person is.

  Richard Masur

  Beach, Real, Ocean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

  Richard Masur

  Guy, Survivor, Handful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I moved out to L.A. in July and Hot L Baltimore started in September or October. So I had done a few things. I'd done a Mary [Tyler Moore]. I'd done a Waltons. I hadn't done a Rhoda yet I don't think.

  Richard Masur

  Thinking, July, Hot

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job.

  Richard Masur

  Jobs, Men, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

  Richard Masur

  Years, Miracle, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

  Richard Masur

  Real, Careers, Mentor

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am so grateful for One Day At A Time, even though for years and years and years people would go, "Oh, you were on One Day At A Time." I [am on the show] for about seven months and then this haunts me for the rest of my life. No, I had no regrets.

  Richard Masur

  Regret, Grateful, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a residential not quite welfare but almost welfare hotel with a very bizarre collection of people.The desk clerk was played by Jamie Cromwell. That was his first big thing. Conchata Ferrell played April, the main of the two prostitutes, and my character didn't exist in the [stage] show.

  Richard Masur

  Character, Two, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

  Richard Masur

  Believe, Character, Black

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and walk into this room which every seat is filled with young African-American boys and girls and they were in their teens. I went, "I'm in the wrong place. Why am I here? What's going on?"So I go in and meet Norman [Lear].

  Richard Masur

  Girl, New York, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• After we did [All In The Family], that ended up being a real love fest all around. Me and Norman, Norman [Lear] and me, Rob Reiner, everybody liked everybody. So about six or seven months later I moved out to L.A. and I got a call that Norman wanted to see me. I came in and he said "ABC has given me a property that they just optioned to make into a TV series. It's from a play called Hot L Baltimore, and I want you to be in it."

  Richard Masur

  Real, Seven Months, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've worked with a ginormous number of people over the years. What happens when you've been around for a while, when you run into people whose work you've seen and liked and they have seen and liked your work, there's a sense of you kind of know each other even though you don't.

  Richard Masur

  Running, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did Bored To Death with Jason [Schwartzman] and Zach Galifianakis and those guys. I mean, how lucky can you be that you get to be the old guy? I get to be Robert Preston to them now. That's what I feel. My job is to pass on what Preston and other people gave to me, which was show up, take the work seriously, don't take yourself seriously, and have a good time and be of service. Be there to support.

  Richard Masur

  Jobs, Mean, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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