“I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.” FirstsDoneRolesNew YorkOppositesBusCowboyKimStanleyBus Stops Author:Dick York
“I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.” WantSaidAbleInvolvedMusclesTherapistsGestalt Author:Dick York
“Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.” PeopleMindHeartRadioHeart And Mind Author:Dick York
“Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.” WantedTimeRadioTheatreFirefighter Author:Dick York
“My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.” GivingLongPainPeriodsWaveHealedSpine Author:Dick York
“I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.” MiddleSummerChillJacketsShaking Author:Dick York
“Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.” WayLooksFeltConfused Author:Dick York
“I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.” PainWorkSeeingExerciseDrinkBedWork OutCoffeePillsPlunge Author:Dick York
“When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.” SchoolFoundTeachingWindFundamentalistInherit The Wind Author:Dick York
“I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.” LifeFirstsStepsTaughtMusicalBobTaught UsMotion PicturesChoreographersFosse Author:Dick York
“I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.” PeopleLoveHas BeensAgeGoneStageTelevisionBlessedRadioComplaintsMotion PicturesPhysical Things Author:Dick York
“We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.” PeopleLostMoneyPayBuildingWelfareApartment Author:Dick York
“You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.” PeoplePlayGamesWaitingSoundMusicAirEffectsDressesScriptsTimingRehearsalSound Effects Author:Dick York
“I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.” GivingFeelingsTimeWaitingSleepRoomsGoes OnGive MeLaysDressingsRottenDressing RoomsFeeling Pretty Author:Dick York
“I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.” WantPainNextWorkSleepExhaustedNext DayPills Author:Dick York