American - Actor | 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
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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.
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There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.
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I was playing good tennis up until 100.
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I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that.
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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.
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I have never had a better working experience than 'St. Elsewhere.' It's a supreme show.
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Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.
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An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.
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People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.
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I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run.
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With Hitchcock, you work with a script, and you stick to it.
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