Mike Connors

Actor

1925-08-15

Quotes by Mike Connors

• At one point I was so desperate for work that I got a bunch of rich Armenian farmers to finance a movie for me at American International Pictures. It was a nine-day quickie called 'The Flesh and the Spur,' and everyone made money out of it except me and my Armenian backers.

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• I had a brief conversation with Tracy when I was doing 'Tightrope.' He said he and Kate Hepburn always watched the show and he told me how important listening was and I've never forgotten what he said. I watch every Tracy film I can.

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• It took 10 years before I got any kind of recognition, with the 'Tightrope' series in the '60s. Until that time I was doing half-hour Westerns and small parts.

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• What happened was I discovered that even though 'Tightrope' had bombed in the United States, it was a big hit in Latin America. So I put together this act, with singing and dancing, and I did 10 weeks in Mexico and four weeks in South America.

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• It seems logical to me that a television star with 40 million viewers would bring to a movie a very large number of fans who would want to see him in anything he made.

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• Eight years of doing 'Mannix' meant getting up at 5:30 and not getting home until 8 or 9 in the evening. Lunches were spent being interviewed or in story and wardrobe conferences. Weekends you were hitting the road, promoting the series and making personal appearances.

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• They killed off variety shows and they killed off Westerns by having too many of the same thing.

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