Rod Taylor

“I pray and try every day to be a better actor.”

“Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.”

“I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.”

“I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.”

“When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.”

“The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.”