Top 30 Quotes by Ed Asner

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 pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

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.

If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

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

You don't work with Cloris Leachman, you experience her.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

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.