39 Quotes by Rod Taylor

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.