Ken Wahl Quotes

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Ken Wahl

Profession : Actor

Birth : February 14, 1957

I didn't realize I was a conservative until after I got into show-business.

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I'm a very happy, content private person. Even when I was acting before I got hurt I never had a publicist, I never had PR help. I always wanted my work to do the talking for me. I did very little publicity.

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Being trained is fine if you feel that it helps you, but you can be the greatest trained actor in the world, and if no one wants to watch you do it, it's all for naught.

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I'm trying to do the best job that I can. It's just that I'm pragmatic and practical about the business. It is a business, and I approach it that way.

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I think there may have been somewhat of a backlash against me because I have been successful too easily. I think there's been some resentment about that in the acting community.

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The first movie I ever did was the first acting I ever did.

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Chryslers were the best. They had the best engines, the Hemis. Those in the know know.

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I like being around my family.

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I like to do movies when the camera is rolling, I have fun then. But everything else is a bunch of garbage, you know?

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You won't see any headlines about me in those supermarket tabloids.

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I'm sort of proud of the fact that I'm sort of a - for want of a better term - an anti-celebrity.

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Put it this way, I'm a regular guy with the exception of having an unusual - by regular guy standards - occupation.

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I don't know if I would have made the major leagues, but I would have gotten to at least Triple-A.

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If someone wants to think what I do is somewhat artistic, that's fine, but I'm not looking to be necessarily labeled an artist by the media.

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For me, it really doesn't make much difference whether you work with someone two hours or two months. We're there to do a job and you do it. It's just like any other business - if you're with somebody 12 or 15 weeks, you're bound to get to know them, whether you want to or not.

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Frankly, I didn't want to do a television series because of the grind mainly.

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I got spoiled starting out in movies. It's much harder work doing TV. In a movie, they'll take two or three hours setting up lights while you're in your trailer watching Bugs Bunny.

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The great majority of the things the press has written have been highly inaccurate about myself.

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Wiseguy' is very demanding of an audience; you just can't sit back on the couch with a beer and zone out and expect to understand what's going on. You have to stay on top of it.

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I felt no need for rebellion. I was a real loner.

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