Tony Randall Quotes

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.

- Tony Randall

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.

- Tony Randall

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

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.

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

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.

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

- Tony Randall

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

- Tony Randall

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.

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

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

- Tony Randall

Museums, I love museums.

- Tony Randall

The competition is pretty rough these days.

- Tony Randall

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

- Tony Randall

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

- Tony Randall