Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Edd Byrnes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Edd Byrnes.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Edward Byrne Breitenberger, known professionally as Edd Byrnes, was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the television series 77 Sunset Strip. He also was featured in the 1978 film Grease as television teen-dance show host Vince Fontaine, and was a charting recording artist with "Kookie, Kookie ".

American - Actor | July 30, 1933 - January 8, 2020

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When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

Edd Byrnes

It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

Edd Byrnes

I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

Edd Byrnes

Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.

Edd Byrnes

I don't envy young actors.

Edd Byrnes

The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.

Edd Byrnes

I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.

Edd Byrnes

Happiness is an inside job.

Edd Byrnes

In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.

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