Bob Gunton quotes
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“And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.”
-- Bob GuntonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies.”
-- Bob GuntonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.”
-- Bob GuntonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.”
-- Bob GuntonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.”
-- Bob GuntonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Most people recognize me from The Shawshank Redemption, but there is this subculture of people who have collected all 13 episodes of Greg The Bunny. And I'm still close to a number of the creative people, Dan Milano particularly, who created Warren The Ape and Greg The Bunny and all of those characters.”
-- Bob GuntonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Put your trust in the Lord....your ***** belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.”
-- Bob GuntonSource : "Fictional character: Warden Samuel Norton". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.
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“Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.”
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“I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.”
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“My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.”
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“In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.”
-- Bob GuntonSource : "ACTORS' DIALOGUE: Bob Gunton & Anne Archer". Interview with Rob Kendt, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.
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“Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.”
-- Bob Gunton -
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“I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.”
-- Bob Gunton
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