Hume Cronyn Quotes

• The most magical moment in the theater is a silence so complete that you can’t even hear people breathe. It means that you’ve got them.

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• Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.

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• I’m a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I’m sure I imposed that on my kids.

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• To try and stand outside the marriage, I’d say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.

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• I try to read everything that’s sent me – play scripts, movie scripts – but I’ve had to make a rule. If the author hasn’t grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

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• I’ve had a bad time, which we won’t dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I’m crawling back.

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• I do a lot of planning and plotting. That’s my greatest weakness. If I’m not terribly careful, I’ll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

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• I fill my life with a lot of ‘busyness’ in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It’s compulsive. I don’t know what to do about it. I’m a little old to change.

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• I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

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• The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

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• I don’t mind playing absolute bastards… I just don’t want to play the grouch.

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Hume Cronyn (11)

Birth:	18th July, 1911
Death:	15th June, 2003
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor

About

Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr. was born in London, Ontario, Canada. He was a Canadian actor. His father Hume Blake Cronyn, Sr. was a businessman and a Member of Parliament for London. His role in several films include: Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, The Seventh Cross(nominated- Academy Award for best supporting actor), The Sailor Takes a Wife, Brute Force, Crowded Paradise, Rollover, Impulse, Cocoon(Nominated- Saturn Award for Best Actor), Camilla, and Marvin's Room(Nominated- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance). His role in television include: The Marriage(TV series), Foxfire(TV film), Broadway Bound(TV film), 12 Angry Men(TV film), and Seasons of Love(TV film). He won a Drama Desk Special Award in 1986. In 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Western Ontario on October 26, 1974. His wife, Jessica Tandy was given the same degree on the same day.

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