Charles Grodin Quotes

With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

It seems there are no rich on death row.

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.