As soon as we thought it would really be funny to have a fish for a gym coach, it popped in our heads, she's gotta have a really gruff voice because she's a gym coach. The first thing that came to mind was Brian Doyle Murray and we thought, well let's see if he'd be interested, and he said yes.
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Cary Grant was another gentleman who I saw around the lot. Wallace Berry had a reputation for being gruff but he was very nice to me.
Just before the meeting got started, Andy Grove, the gruff chairman of Intel's board at the time, pulled Pottruck aside. 'When you got promoted to CEO,' ... 'did that make you a better man' I said no. He said, 'Well then, do you think the fact that you're no longer CEO of Schwab means you're not a better man' I said, 'No, I don't think so.' He said, 'You're as good a man as you were last week. Hold your head high.' It helped me a lot.
Wilcox was very gruff and I perceived his voice as threatening. He informed me if I wanted to be all high and mighty and act like I was above the law, that he could take me down to the police station if I sold even one ticket, and have me booked and printed like any drug dealer who was breaking the law.
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
His bark is worse than his bite. He's got a gruff exterior but underneath is a heart of gold.