Words matter. These are the best Ed Asner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that’s where you’ll find me.
I’m not sought after. I never get enough work. It’s the history of my career. There just isn’t anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can’t get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
I love acting.
It’s like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn’t necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.
The older I’ve gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
To tell you the truth, I hadn’t seen any Pixar until I went to see ‘Wall-E,’ and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it… And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, ‘Up,’ how adult it was.
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it’s still a work in progress.
I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says ‘He may be difficult, so let’s avoid him.’
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn’t watch. It’s the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
I don’t know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it’s here. I make the best of it.
I’ve never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
I don’t believe in God, though I’m not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: ‘There are no atheists in foxholes.’ I’ve never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I’ll let you know if I believe in God or not.
Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn’t until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
