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Ed Asner, born on November 15, 1929, is an American voice actor. He is best known for his voice work in animation and films, particularly for voicing Homer Simpson in 'The Simpsons'. Asner's career spans various fields, including television, film, and theater.

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“Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.”

Children Parenting

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“I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.”

Beautiful Roles Regard Instruments Musical Scripts Worthy Musical Instruments

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“I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.”

Years Actors Method

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“I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.”

Men I Can Voice Can Do Type Lovers Limits Old Man Galahad

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“They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.”

Law Actors Acting Watches Sausage

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“Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.”

War Feelings Political Cards Awful Civil War Spanish Civil War

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“I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.”

Mind Two Three Jesus News Work Out There Is No God Own Business Mind Your Own Business Things Work Out Mind Your Own Everything Works Out

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“I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.”

School Careers High School Newspapers Journalism Editors Newspaper Editors

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“My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.”

Firsts Jobs Stuff Cities Plant Slave Treated Chicago Steel Mills Kansas Cab Kansas City

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“Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.”

Play Might Able Realizing Acting College Profession Blunders Lead In

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“Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.”

Find Me Adulation

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“It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.”

Years Different Actors Hot Athlete Strings Categories Fades Nothingness

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“The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.”

Needs May Matter Character Comedy Essentials Tragic Presenting Portraying

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“I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.”

Way Enough Turns Careers Let Me Working It

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“Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.”

Ifs Stills Enough Jobs Moving Actors Acting Theater Engaged Tickets Stance

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“All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.”

Should Capitalist Buffett Warren Buffet

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“I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going into journalism?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I wouldn't.' I said, 'Well, why not?' He said, 'You can't make a living.'”

Men Wells Said Teacher Yeah Planning Journalism Why Not Desks

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“[on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really worried about changing over from a three-camera, half-hour comedy to a one-camera, full-hour drama. The audience wasn't ready for the switch - even CBS billed us in their promos as a comedy. In fact, the whole thing was impossible. But we didn't know that.”

Knows Whole Facts Three Hours Half Audience Comedy Impossible Ready Drama Cameras Series Worried Dramatic Grants Transition Mary Half Hours

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“Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.”

Kids Funny Joy Parenting Parenthood Warfare Thank You Mothers Day Being A Parent Having Kids Raising Kids Funny Parenting Funny Parent Guerrillas Parenthood Funny New Baby Boy Guerrilla Warfare Foster Parent

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“As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.”

Ifs War Used Peace What If Worthwhile International Peace World Peace Day International Peace Day

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“There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.”

World Should Resources Hunger Hungry Sufficient World Hunger Ending Hunger Hunger For Food Food Banks Hunger Awareness

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“The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.”

“A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.”

People Want Feels Black

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“To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'”

May Difficult Mindset Producers

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“I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.”

People Thinking Has Beens Different Whole Strong Color Adventure Racism Regimes Streaks Different Colors Regime Change

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“The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.”

Dating Treasure Hunting

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“We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves.”

Way Littles Mother Loss Attention Quality Comfortable Deserve Destruction Beloved Ecology Quality Of Life Beloved Mother

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“I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.”

Long Enough Lasts Economic Inequality Economic Inequality

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About the Author

Born: November 15, 1929
Known for: Voice Actor
Quotes: 28

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