Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Ted Cassidy

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Theodore Crawford Cassidy was an American actor noted for his tall stature at 6 ft 9 in (206 cm) and deep voice. He tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction series such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie, and played Lurch on The Addams Family in the mid-1960s. He also narrated The Incredible Hulk TV series.

American - Actor | July 31, 1932 - January 16, 1979

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I don't get the sense of doing anything of national importance. I travel to the studio, work and go home.

Ted Cassidy

I think kids like Lurch because he's kind of an earthbound superman. They know he's physically strong and they sense that he's a gentle man who loves kids.

Ted Cassidy

Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.

Ted Cassidy

I got to know the cast pretty well. Not so much Leonard Nimoy, I got to know William Shatner pretty well. They are a pretty good gang. The production company that made 'Star Trek' is the kind of production company that likes to have fun.

Ted Cassidy

I was lucky. I missed the struggle. I don't feel I have to pay anyone back for the miserable years. I never had them.

Ted Cassidy

There's not too much opportunity to do that in ordinary life... there's not too much call for hatchet throwers.

Ted Cassidy

I did play semi-pro ball for a time. It was the line of least resistance.

Ted Cassidy

I get no amusement having people eyeball me because of my size.

Ted Cassidy

If things get slow, I can always drop around to the gym and dunk a few.

Ted Cassidy

An actor feels the dilemma of being a human being and through his art tries to explain the condition of man.

Ted Cassidy

I turned 30 and decided if I was going to try acting I had better try or wind up still holding a desk job at 50.

Ted Cassidy

Lurch's quietness is a result of personal dignity. He appreciates things of quality. His greatest joy is playing Bach on the harpsichord, and he recognizes the music as the result of 'a great human effort to express.

Ted Cassidy

I've been a tough sailor, a foppish-type landscape gardener, a French villain, a circus strongman.

Ted Cassidy

It's not enough to be 6 feet 9 to get along in this world.

Ted Cassidy

Getting Lurch's character straightened out was fun because I was brand new to professional film acting. I had only been in radio up till then as an announcer or a program director.

Ted Cassidy

Acting Is unlike any other profession in the world. It's a succession of jobs. When 'The Addams Family' ends, however good you may be, when that job ends, you end. My gettng the show was a million-to-one shot.

Ted Cassidy

You know, I can't tell you that I'm very fond of anything I've done, including - and especially- 'The Addams Family.' That's an albatross around my neck that I've got to get rid of somehow.

Ted Cassidy

I turned down a part in 'Petticoat Junction.' They wanted me to play a circus giant. I didn't want to take that step into type casting. I don't want to play freaks and science-fiction monsters.

Ted Cassidy

It was nice to be working steadily and piling up some money in the bank but there really wasn't much to do except walk around and... well, be Lurch.

Ted Cassidy

I never mention my size when I'm after a job in show business.

Ted Cassidy

One doesn't take a day off from love.

Ted Cassidy

You will probably be hearing more about this schoolboy. His name is Wilt Chamberlain.

Ted Cassidy

There is no gainsaying that Lurch has put me where I am today. Lurch bought the house I live in. But what's going to happen to a guy like me when it's over? What happens when the show dies in maybe five years? Do I die too? No! I want to go on with other things.

Ted Cassidy

Whenever I'd find myself talking to someone in the kitchen of their home, I'd automatically rest my arm on the refrigerator, simply because it was most convenient. I had to watch myself pretty close - I didn't mind the dusty sleeve, but that glare from the hostess was something else!

Ted Cassidy

Only as a child is one truly innocent. When he grows, he must pull on one veneer after another.

Ted Cassidy

That's one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don't have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and producers.

Ted Cassidy

Max Baer called me one morning and told me that Carl Foreman was making a movie based on the book 'Mackenna's Gold' and he was sure that I was right for one of the parts. He was so ebullient about it that he bent my ear for 20 minutes.

Ted Cassidy

I figure, I want to get a role on my ability, not my size. And anyway, after the director or producer sees me, he remembers what I look like, anyway.

Ted Cassidy

It doesn't matter if you're big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least I hope he does, because that's the craft.

Ted Cassidy

I didn't only play Lurch. I also was 'Thing,' the hand that came up and on-camera every now and then. You should try acting with only one hand sometime. Great discipline.

Ted Cassidy

Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Ted Cassidy

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