Quotes from Wayne Rogers

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.

I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.

We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

I have an appetite to always learn.

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.