Tim Reid
Tim Reid
Timothy L. "Tim" Reidis an American actor, comedian and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs, such as Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati, Marcel "Downtown" Brown on Simon & Simon, Ray Campbell on Sister, Sisterand William Barnett on That '70s Show. Reid starred in a CBS series, Frank's Place, as a professor who inherits a Louisiana restaurant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth19 December 1944
CityNorfolk, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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I don't believe I'm going to take him down and put him up every night. I believe I'll just stay here all night and watch him from the property.
It was kind of like the tortoise and the hare. We were the tortoise and we won.
It's getting like church up in here, we're going to have to take up a collection.
It's easier on the animal because you don't have to move them while they are tranquilized,
Look at the truth, that's what you should be fighting for.
There was an officer who was literally on the scene within a minute,
What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. I'd been up for so many of those! I'd had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasn't interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For 'WKRP,' too much of either would be bad.
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.
A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.
How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?
Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.
Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.
Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.