Get Smart actor quotes

[colly]

found these off Brainy quote- wasnt sure where to put them but thought they might provoke some discussion, quoting or profile stuff

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.
Don Adams

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.
Don Adams

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.
Don Adams

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.
Don Adams

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.
Don Adams

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.
Don Adams

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Don Adams

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.
Don Adams

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.
Don Adams

[colly]

looking further i found these Barbara Feldon quotes:

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
Barbara Feldon

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
Barbara Feldon

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
Barbara Feldon

but none from ed platt.

[the guy in Control]

nice idea...

William Schallert (better known around here as Admiral Hargrave) said, "I believe you shouldn't become an actor unless you need to. Unless you have no choice about it. Liking - even loving - acting is not enough. You have to need to act."

Dick Gautier (Hymie) said, "Hymie never stifled my career. He only enhanced it. I know kids who were named Hymie because they looked like me."

Don Rickles (who was in 3 episodes) said, "Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive."

Rickles was also quoted as saying, "If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny."

James Caan (in a couple episodes of the '60s show as well as the '08 movie) said, "My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'"

and although he was in two episodes of Get Smart, i think we were to try to list quotes from Johnny Carson, we could be here all day!

[huffaker]

More an anecdote than a quote: I read where Don Adams was playing golf with a friend and winning - he kept laughing at the guy's bad fortune, who, having had enough, shoved Adams down and stuffed a golf ball into his mouth. Adams commented "Remind me never to go bowling with you."

[colly]

heres one from Don Adams:

"In restaurants, [people] send over shoes. I'm so tired of it. I keep getting shoes. People in cars drive by me, recognise me, take off their shoe, hand it out the window, and say, 'Here, it's for you'."

[the guy in Control]

quotes from Steve Carell:

"I think a character in a comedy should not know they're in a comedy."

"When they approached me about who I would want writing 'Get Smart,' I suggested B.J [Novak]. The episodes [of The Office] that he's written walk the line between intensely funny and slightly offensive. But they always fall on the side of being funny. I also suggested him because I think he's going to be someone I'll be working for someday, and I want to get on his good side now."

"I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me."

[the guy in Control]

according to Anne Hathaway (on performing love scenes with Steve Carell in Get Smart), "Making out with him is like the yummiest lollipop dipped in sunshine and wrapped around in a masculine wrapper."

[colly]

"I think a character in a comedy should not know they're in a comedy."

i agree. Comedy played straight is arguably the funniest of all comedies. Jim Carrey could learn that lesson.