Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Herrmann

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Edward Herrmann.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Edward Kirk Herrmann was an American actor, director, and writer. He was perhaps best known for his portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the miniseries Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and 1982 film musical Annie, Richard Gilmore in Amy Sherman-Palladino's comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007), and a ubiquitous narrator for historical programs on The History Channel and in such PBS productions as Nova. He was also known as a spokesman for Dodge automobiles in the 1990s.

American - Actor | July 21, 1943 - December 31, 2014

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How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

Edward Herrmann

I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.

Edward Herrmann

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

Edward Herrmann

You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

Edward Herrmann

I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

Edward Herrmann

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

Edward Herrmann

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.

Edward Herrmann

I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

Edward Herrmann

Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

Edward Herrmann

Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.

Edward Herrmann

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

Edward Herrmann

I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

Edward Herrmann

Cats are hard to train, but they can train them.

Edward Herrmann

If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

Edward Herrmann

Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Fruedian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.

Edward Herrmann

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Edward Herrmann

Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Herrmann

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