Robert Preston
Robert Preston
Robert Prestonwas an American stage and film actor best remembered for originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B.and again in Victor Victoria. For portraying Carroll "Toddy" Todd in the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 55th Academy Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 June 1918
CityNewton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.
Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?
I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.
I have always had confidence in my own ability.
For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.
I've done my best to avoid B pictures.
Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.
I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.
I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.
The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.
In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.
All the media have their own award presentations.
I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.
I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.