Norman Lloyd Quotes

Norman Lloyd

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 8, 1914

My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York.

Norman Lloyd

The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.

Norman Lloyd

If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete.

Norman Lloyd

There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.

Norman Lloyd

I was playing good tennis up until 100.

Norman Lloyd

I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that.

Norman Lloyd

You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn't working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts.

Norman Lloyd

Everyone's looking for who's hot. What about looking for who's good?

Norman Lloyd

Renoir had a strong feeling about his fellow soldiers. He'd never disrespect them by putting the war down.

Norman Lloyd

I have never had a better working experience than 'St. Elsewhere.' It's a supreme show.

Norman Lloyd

Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.

Norman Lloyd

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.

Norman Lloyd

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

Norman Lloyd

I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run.

Norman Lloyd

With Hitchcock, you work with a script, and you stick to it.

Norman Lloyd

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

Norman Lloyd

I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents.

Norman Lloyd

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.

Norman Lloyd

I eat meat, poultry and fish in proper proportion - nothing to excess.

Norman Lloyd

I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.

Norman Lloyd