Quotes from Norman Lloyd

The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.

I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that.

There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.

I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.

I loved working with Renoir on 'The Southerner.' Oh, I loved it! I particularly loved when he had a scene with a cow going through a garden, and he wanted a little dog to come and bark at it and chase it out.

I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents.

You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn't working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts.

Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family.

Connie Bennett, the guys used to stake her, she was so good.

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.

With Hitchcock, you work with a script, and you stick to it.

Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.

Renoir had a strong feeling about his fellow soldiers. He'd never disrespect them by putting the war down.

The writing was vastly superior to almost anything that was on the air. It's one of the great shows. It was an important show... 'St. Elsewhere' was one of the great shows in the history of television.

You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to.

As far as 'St. Elsewhere' goes, I just loved that show.

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.