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Charles Grodin Biography

Charles Grodin (born April 21, 1935) is an American actor, comedian, author, and former television talk show host. Grodin began his acting career in the 1960s appearing in TV serials including The Virginian. He had a small part as an obstetrician in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby in 1968. In the 1970s he moved into film acting, including playing the lead in The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and supporting roles in Catch-22 (1970) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He became a familiar face as a supporting actor in many Hollywood comedies of the era, including Real Life (1979), Seems Like Old Times (1980), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), The Woman in Red (1984), The Lonely Guy (1984), Ishtar (1987), The Couch Trip (1988), Taking Care of Business (1990), and Dave (1993).

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With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

Care, Like, Opposites, Smoothie, Smoothies

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

Acting, Miss, Missing, Play, See, Television

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

Doe, Hurt, Principles, Tom, Whenever

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

Book, Crazy, Daily, Home, Movies, New York

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

Acting, Apply, Cameras, Thinking, Trust

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

Disrespectful, Guy, Mean, Wise

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

Actors, Comic, People, Ratio, Ratios

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

Dare, Observation, Torah, Witty

I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

Communicating, Confused, People, Take, Want, Wonder

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Appears, Everyone, Harder, Having, Time

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

Answers, Care, Hard, Question

It seems there are no rich on death row.

Death, Death Row, Rich, Row, Seems

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

Civilization, Government, People, Regulations

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

Attention, Cancer, Enough, Survival

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

Accepting, Blown, Done, People, Recently, Said