Ken Wahl Quotes

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Ken Wahl

Profession : Actor

Birth : February 14, 1957

In all my experience - I had a very serious spinal injury - my entire career was only 11 years long, I can tell you that no one in Hollywood ever asked me for my political affiliation or my religious beliefs or anything like that. What they care about is making money.

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I don't believe in career strategy and all that, because there's no way of telling.

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I'm lucky enough to be in a financial position where I don't have to take anything that comes along.

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I don't think of myself as an actor. I just happen to be a guy who acted in a movie.

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I don't mean to put acting down - it's a lot of fun but you can't take it seriously.

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I'd like to be a professional baseball player that's always been a big ambition of mine. I'd also like to try my hand at being a rock 'n' roll musician.

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It seems like an awful silly way to make a living - pretending to be other people and getting paid outrageously for it.

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I don't know the first thing about acting and I don't want to know. I just go out there and do it.

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If you talk about your private life, it's not private anymore. What I do as a livelihood is for public consumption, but the rest is not.

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The media turned my leaving 'Wiseguy' into a big thing. But there was no big fight or anything. Furthermore, I wasn't the only one who left. The production staff and writing staff left, too.

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To say I'm a difficult actor is just inaccurate.

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I don't care about the medium as long as the material is good. If something strikes me, I don't limit myself. I go after it.

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It's embarrassing to me to blow my own horn all the time.

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Everybody said I was nuts for going out to California and trying to be an actor, but I think you can apply pragmatism and common sense to this business. I'm living proof of that.

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I get really tired of seeing people on TV going on and on about themselves.

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I have no press agent I'm a firm believer in natural selection. If enough people think I'm good enough at what I do, I will be able to continue. If not, I won't, and that's the way it should be.

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I wouldn't want to be where I wasn't wanted.

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Wiseguy' was very satisfying to do, but it was also very draining.

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I'm just an actor when the camera's on. The rest of the time I'm just Kenny, and I just do what I do. I like it that way.

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When I'd come home from work, you know, I'd watch television like every other average guy, go to the movies occasionally, and I just wasn't intimidated by it. It just didn't seem like it was that big of a deal, that it shouldn't be all that difficult.

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