Robert Stack Quotes (43 Quotes)

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.

It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

I wander around and my wife and I are very close, we go out and go to places we discover, we love to eat and drinking doesn't hurt.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

I am very pro law enforcement.

California's red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

Most everyone with any sense knows that all creatures need a suitable place to live. If the places to live are not sufficient to ensure the recovery of the frog, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to predict the consequences.

I find these shows very touching sometimes.

In terms of segments, I think we've done 1,200.

There are many people of integrity in both parties who will continue to oppose this radical effort to significantly weaken one of our country's most important environmental laws,

We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

I'm very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time.

We've taken big strides in a short time. But we've got a lot more striding to do. Community is key.

Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

For years people have called it a Heart Line, when you send it out it is received and recepted, on this show, they like it. I think.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.

If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.

This show television wise its quite different from motion papers, you get to come into people's homes and become in a sense part of their life.

I think the instant communication, which is something to me of an eye opener, is the best possible way to solve crimes and mysteries.

Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy.

Speed was a very important part of my life. Someone once asked me if I ever tried drugs. And I said I didn't need it, I had speed. It's a kick.

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

These are icons to be treasured.

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

I would doubt that this much money has been spent accomplishing important 'on-the-ground' recovery work. It is now coming up on 10 years since (it) was first listed as a 'threatened' species, and it is still not through the bureaucratic morass.

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

And when I did the Untouchables, I told them going in, if you try apologizing for any of these crumb bums, get someone else to play the part.

It's just been a series of political maneuvers that leave me astonished at how much power a small number of people can ply over a large area.