65 Quotes by Ed Asner

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.