Jack Klugman Quotations

I was reluctant to take the TV role, ... How does a TV series follow a classic Broadway comedy?

There are so many stories about injustices that I would like to do, especially about the harmfulness of smoking tobacco.

He's by Damon Runyon out of a Don Rickles mare,

we had dated a long time, we had some good times.

The reason is simple. It's my love for Tony. But you know what? I still enjoy meeting people who respect my career. Trips like this remind me how much I love show business.

I let more people into my life now. I never really had a chance to tell Tony what he had done for me while he was alive. Now I want the world to know.

I'm being asked why, at my age, I'm going on this tough road tour to promote a book,

It worked. It really worked, ... It was a successful night. But more importantly, it was Tony's way of building my confidence.

He told me the show always made his father laugh, particularly at a time when laughter was necessary in his life. Meetings like that keep you on the road for a long time,

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.

Some days when I start to talk, my voice isnt strong. But then it warms up.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.