Rod Taylor Quotes

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

I am proud to be an actor.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

Acting is something I love.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

Acting doesn't suffice.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.