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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Anthony Leonard Randall was an American actor. He is best known for portraying the role of Felix Unger in a television adaptation of the 1965 play The Odd Couple by Neil Simon. In a career spanning six decades, Randall received six Golden Globe Award nominations and six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning one.
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
Sooner or later, we sell out for money.
Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.
I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
Museums, I love museums.
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.
The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
The competition is pretty rough these days.
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.
We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?
In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.
I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.
Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.
I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.
You mustn't take any award so seriously.
The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.
Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.
We have too many actors for the jobs available.
Awards are only a publicity gimmick.
There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.
I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting
In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company
Sooner or later, we sell out for money
Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country
I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him
Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father
Love isn't an opinion, it's a chemical reaction.
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier
I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.
I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields
And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage