Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Stack

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

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Robert Stack was an American actor. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over forty feature films. He starred in the ABC television series The Untouchables (1959–1963), for which he won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series, and later hosted/narrated the true-crime series Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002). He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Written on the Wind (1956).

American - Actor | January 13, 1919 - May 14, 2003

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These are icons to be treasured.

Robert Stack

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

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Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

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I'm very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time.

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It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

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That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

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Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.

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You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

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I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

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If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

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Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

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They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.

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I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

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I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

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Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together.

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Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy.

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I am very pro law enforcement.

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I find these shows very touching sometimes.

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Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

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I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

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In terms of segments, I think we've done 1,200.

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Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.

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I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

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A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

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We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

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In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

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I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

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I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

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Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

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If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in a comic book it's not too attractive to me-because it's too familiar. Extremes aren't necessary. Even 'high fashion' frightens most men. When I have to wait in the dentist's office, I sometimes look at fashion magazines. To me, most of the models look like they have rickets or scoliosis of the spine. They look less like woman than caricatures.

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It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.

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It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky.

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The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad!

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Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.

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I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.

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If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.

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Perhaps YOU can help solve a mystery.

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