Jack Klugman Quotes

For 50 Years, Acting Was The Reason I Got Up In The Morning.

Some Days When I Start To Talk, My Voice Isnt Strong. But Then It Warms Up.

Suddenly It Was Gone. I'd Lost More Than My Voice And My Career. I'd Lost My Best Friend.

Now I Have The Voice Of A 16-year-old. I'm Looking For A Doctor Who Could Give Me The Body Of A 16-year-old.

The Only Tool We Have As Artists Is Selectivity. If You're A Painter, You Select The Color, The Lines, How Severe They Should Be. As An Actor You Develop How Angry You Should Be. You Select How Angry You Should Be. You Listen To The Other Actor And Then You React. In Film, Sometimes The Other Actor Isn't Even There. You Have To Play The Scene. What I Do Is I Call On My Experience On The Stage. I Play The Scene And I Hope That I Reach A Certain Level Of Integrity Because That's What I Learned On The Stage.

Acting Became My Best Friend. When I Auditioned To Get Into College, The Teacher Said You Belong Here, Mr. Klugman, And To Hear That Word Belong - I Never Belonged Anywhere Before - And Suddenly I Belonged In Acting And It Was So Comfortable And I Loved It.

I Saw John Garfield Smoke. He Was My Idol, So I Smoked. I Even Smoked Like Him.

We Learned Out Craft. Acting Is A Craft And You Must Learn It. I See A Lot Of Talent Today In The Kids But They Don't Know How To Work. They Don't Know The Craft Of Acting And You Can Only Get That On The Stage In Theater. You Cannot Learn How To Act In Movies Or In Television.

Walter Matthau Made All The Big Money And He Was Wonderful As Oscar Madison On The Stage. You Couldn't Beat Him. I Know Because I Replaced Him On Broadway. He Was Just Delightful.

I'm 83 And A Half Years Old And I Feel Fine. I Feel Like A Teenager But I'm Unable To Do A Lot Of The Things That I Used To Do But I Enjoy Life To The Fullest.

I Love The Theater Because I Love The Live Audience And When We Went Three Cameras We Have A Live Audience In The Study So We Had Someone To Play To And React To. That Laughter.

I Was At The Pinnacle Of My Career One Day And The Next Day I Was Put Out To Pasture. I Felt Like A Race Horse With A Broken Leg.