Top 45 Quotes & Sayings by Judge Reinhold

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Edward Ernest "Judge" Reinhold Jr. is an American actor who has starred in several Hollywood movies, such as Ruthless People, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Stripes and Gremlins, and co-starred in all of the films in the Beverly Hills Cop and The Santa Clause trilogies.

American - Actor | Born: May 21, 1957

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I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

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I'm not the comic innovator that Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy are. I can't just come out with an incredible line.

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Eddie Murphy is a great entertainer.

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People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

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I like to watch and perform the kind of comedy that comes out of the situation - where the character is really serious and in a tough situation and doesn't realize that the situation is comic.

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I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'

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I still enjoy a lot of support from the black community.

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I remember once they sent me over to read for a show called 'Mork and Mindy.' I heard gales of laughter, then Robin Williams walked out. I had to follow Robin Williams.

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I didn't get a lot of industry action after 'Fast Times.'

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You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.

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My father was an attorney.

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Before 'Animal House' came out to open up a huge market, there just weren't parts for young guys. That genre of film was my ticket in... One of my first jobs was with Bill Murray in 'Stripes.'

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The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

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The day before 'Beverly Hills Cop' opened, I was at a branch of my bank, and the teller asked me for two pieces of identification. Four days after it opened, I was being waved to on the freeway.

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People are flooded with information every day, and normal guys everywhere try valiantly to stay up with all the technology. But they can't quite do it. I know how those guys feel.

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It's very easy to make a movie that confirms the worst in us.

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I don't think anybody at the major studios is rushing to offer me a romantic lead.

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I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

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I don't put my nose up at anything if the material is good.

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I want to do things of significance, things that will inspire people to know how good life can be.

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I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

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I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.

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The only people in my whole life that have ever called me Edward are the police because it's on my license.

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I was welcomed into some nightclubs in Chicago that no white man's ever been in.

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'Harvey' continues to be both a charming and hilarious play.

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I'm really glad I had the chance to live in Jensen Beach and Stuart before everything exploded. I'm always going to be fond of that area. For me, it was a sleepy little fishing town, and it kind of represents what Florida was before the development explosion.

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A lot of things haven't changed - clothes and stuff have - but kids keep working after-school jobs and keep getting into terrible trouble in relationships. That's not going to stop.

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I frowned just like Winston Churchill on his worst day, and I reminded my father of a judge who had presided over a case... I've been Judge ever since I was two weeks old.

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I like very straight comedy.

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I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

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I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.

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The first show I was in was 'Dracula' in 1975.

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My first time in front of a camera, I said, 'Wonder Woman, I'm so glad you're here.' That's how I made a living.

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In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

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Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there's a sense of jeopardy that's lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don't make sense.

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The message I always received was God is good. You're bad. Try harder. I pretty much kept my hand up at anything that represented God.

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I haven't always played nice guys. In 'Gremlins,' I was a conceited, pompous braggart, and I was a redneck chauvinist in the TV movie 'A Matter of Sex.' But I really prefer sympathetic roles.

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My first sex scene - and it was with myself.

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My first car was a '63 Chevy station wagon that I called Ramona, because that's the sound it made. 'Farm Use' was painted on the back. It was right off the set of 'Hee Haw.'

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I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.

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When I was a kid growing up, I liked the sympathetic characters played by Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, and James Stewart. They were my heroes. No matter what happened to them, they survived with their dignity intact.

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If I get to tell good stories with good people, that's good enough for me.

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I was pulling in $80 a week after taxes working in a frozen yogurt store.

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When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.

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For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.

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Top 45 Quotes & Sayings by Judge Reinhold

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