Edward Herrmann Quotes

• I’m an actor. I’ll take a lead if it’s offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

  Edward Herrmann

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• I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn’t believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don’t have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

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• Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

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• Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I’m sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile’s engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.

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• I think it’s much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can’t think of a better life than acting.

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• I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the ’50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

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• How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

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Edward Herrmann (7)

Birth:	21st July, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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Edward Kirk Herrmann is an American television and film actor. He is best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt on television, and to younger generations for his role as Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, as a ubiquitous narrator for historical programs on the History Channel and PBS productions such as NOVA, and as the spokesman for Dodge automobiles in the 1990s.

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