Gavin MacLeod Quotes

• You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in God, Job

• We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Syndication, Ourselves

• We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we’ve got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Mexico

• We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Princess, Cruise, Ships

• We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in God

  Tags in Exceptional

• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Mindless, Thought, Program

• We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonderful, Program, Support

• This is a group playing together and that’s the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn’t know who was going to be in the play.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Group, Performance

• This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Group, Theatre

• There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I’ve been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I’m doing.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Self, Opportunities

• That’s one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor, Nervous, Anxiety

• Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Newspapers, Article, Actor

• It’s very trying on a marriage when you’re doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don’t have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage, Thing

• It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fictional, Character, Glory

• It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shows, Location

• I’ve played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Hollywood

• I’m just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it’s a very, very busy week. But that’s the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Interviews, Stuff

• I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you’re doing a play it’s like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Television, Acting

• I haven’t killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Television

Gavin MacLeod (24)

Birth:	28th February, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Gavin MacLeod was born in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. He is an American film, television and character actor, whose career spans six decades of television. He has also appeared as a guest on several talk, variety and religious shows. His role in several films include: The Sword of Ali Baba, A Man Called Gannon, The Thousand Plane Raid, Kelly's Heroes, Time Changer, and The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry. He, who also starred in The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show plays the lead role in the film.

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