Ed Asner Quotes

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

I hardly wear any makeup.

I can't stand accessories.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'

I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?'