Ed Asner
Ed Asner
Yitzhak Edward "Ed" Asneris an American film, television, stage, and voice actor, and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is primarily known for his role as Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a drama. He is also known for portraying Santa Claus in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 November 1929
CityKansas City, KS
CountryUnited States of America
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems - like prejudice and desegregation, for instance - that we face in our everyday lives.
You don't work with Cloris Leachman, you experience her.
There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.
I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.