Don Ameche
Don Ameche
Don Ameche was an American actor and voice artist with a career spanning almost 60 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 May 1908
CityKenosha, WI
CountryUnited States of America
close directors five mind outside time work
There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
mainly theater whatever work york
By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.
best days dedication enjoy good henry kick lives work
I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.
camera cut directors guys learned learning listening movies seeing watching work
In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
exercise studied
I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.
accepted certain ensemble lifetime meant nominated surprised
I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.
half hell petrified ran rough saloon scared time
My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
dream men vision
Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.
money awful employee
We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.
money compliment
She meant it as a compliment.
performances
I've seen my performances. I don't like them.
growing-up college law
I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
bette books boy children lives love wrote
There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.
I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.