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Wayne Rogers Quotes

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

– Wayne Rogers

I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.

– Wayne Rogers

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

– Wayne Rogers

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

– Wayne Rogers

There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

– Wayne Rogers

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don’t get a chance to rehearse.

– Wayne Rogers

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I’m the nicest guy in the world.

– Wayne Rogers

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it’s playing somewhere in the world.

– Wayne Rogers

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it’s the least expensive to make them.

– Wayne Rogers

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

– Wayne Rogers

I believe it’s easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people’s lives.

– Wayne Rogers

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

– Wayne Rogers

There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that’s okay, too.

– Wayne Rogers

I’m not saying I’m a paragon of virtue, but it’s hard for me not to be honorable.

– Wayne Rogers

Look first at management. That’s the key to a company.

– Wayne Rogers

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater – at the risk of sounding pretentious – as an icon by which we measure society… My life has been in the theater to an extent. It’s only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

– Wayne Rogers

Somebody once told me I shouldn’t try to change Hollywood. That isn’t my point at all. I don’t want Hollywood to change me.

– Wayne Rogers

We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

– Wayne Rogers

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I’m gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I’m getting.

– Wayne Rogers

You’re in the public eye and you just hope that people don’t come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

– Wayne Rogers

I’m one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

– Wayne Rogers

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I’m libertarian. I don’t subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

– Wayne Rogers

Acting is doing. It’s not speaking; it’s behavior. It’s something happening, even if you’re only listening.

– Wayne Rogers

You can’t change the market; the market just is.

– Wayne Rogers

I’m not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.

– Wayne Rogers

I’d heard stories about business managers who lost their client’s money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

– Wayne Rogers