Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Preston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Robert Preston.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Robert Preston Meservey was an American stage and film actor and singer of Broadway and cinema, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982). For portraying Carroll "Toddy" Todd in the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 55th Academy Awards.

American - Actor | June 8, 1918 - March 21, 1987

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Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

Robert Preston

The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.

Robert Preston

I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.

Robert Preston

All the media have their own award presentations.

Robert Preston

I've done my best to avoid B pictures.

Robert Preston

I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.

Robert Preston

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Robert Preston

I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

Robert Preston

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.

Robert Preston

Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

Robert Preston

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

Robert Preston

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

Robert Preston

I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now, you could say he was all right, because he was able to jump. But you could also say he was not all right, because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.

Robert Preston

I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.

Robert Preston

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Preston

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