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Jack Klugman Biography

Jack Klugman (April 27, 1922 – December 24, 2012) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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I love the theater. I love the rehearsals. That's where you build a performance. That's your foundation. If you're gonna build a house, you start with the foundation. That makes the house strong. That's the way I build a character, from the foundation out.

Build, Character, Gonna, House, Rehearsals, Strong

Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, he offered me a lot of comedy series but I told him I'd already been the best comedy series around, "The Odd Couple," and so when he saw that I did Quincy he called my agent and said, Jack turns me down? All my good series and he ends up playing an undertaker. " And this was the HEAD of ABC series.

Comedy, Couple, Ends, Head, Odd, Quincy

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

Career, Careers, Friend, Gone, My Best Friend, Voice

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

Days, Start, Strong, Voice

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.

Doctors, Give, Looking, Voice, Years

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

Art, Important, Time, Window

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

Randall, Recognize, Tony, World

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.

Blow, Close, Dealt, Fate, Good, Horse

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

Garfield, Idol, Idols, Saws, Smoke, Smoked

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Lessons, Poverty, Privilege, Teach

The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they should be. As an actor you develop how angry you should be. You select how angry you should be. You listen to the other actor and then you react. In film, sometimes the other actor isn't even there. You have to play the scene. What I do is I call on my experience on the stage. I play the scene and I hope that I reach a certain level of integrity because that's what I learned on the stage.

Artist, Experience, Integrity, Select, Severe, Sometimes

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

Enjoy, Enjoy Life, Fine, Old, Teenager, Used

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

Easy, Nothing, Old People, People

We learned out craft. Acting is a craft and you must learn it. I see a lot of talent today in the kids but they don't know how to work. They don't know the craft of acting and you can only get that on the stage in theater. You cannot learn how to act in movies or in television.

Acting, Kids, Talent, Today