Rod Taylor Quotes

Acting doesn’t suffice.

I wouldn’t dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

The fact that I’m going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I’m going to be successful at others.

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it’s necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I am proud to be an actor.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that’s how it all started.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it’s old-fashioned, say it’s corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a ‘business scent’ is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter… were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.