Ted Cassidy Quotes

Ted Cassidy

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 31, 1932

I've been a tough sailor, a foppish-type landscape gardener, a French villain, a circus strongman.

Ted Cassidy

Max Baer called me one morning and told me that Carl Foreman was making a movie based on the book 'Mackenna's Gold' and he was sure that I was right for one of the parts. He was so ebullient about it that he bent my ear for 20 minutes.

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There's not too much opportunity to do that in ordinary life... there's not too much call for hatchet throwers.

Ted Cassidy

I did play semi-pro ball for a time. It was the line of least resistance.

Ted Cassidy

Whenever I'd find myself talking to someone in the kitchen of their home, I'd automatically rest my arm on the refrigerator, simply because it was most convenient. I had to watch myself pretty close - I didn't mind the dusty sleeve, but that glare from the hostess was something else!

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It doesn't matter if you're big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least I hope he does, because that's the craft.

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Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.

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I don't get the sense of doing anything of national importance. I travel to the studio, work and go home.

Ted Cassidy

I was lucky. I missed the struggle. I don't feel I have to pay anyone back for the miserable years. I never had them.

Ted Cassidy