Charles Nelson Reilly

Actor

United States

1931 - 2007

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You can't do anything else once you do game shows. You have no career.
Charles Nelson Reilly
Capricorns like to stay in one place. I have to go to work in places like New York, but basically, I don't want to go anywhere. One time, I got a trip around the world for doing something on television, and the travel agent was so excited, I gave her the tickets.
Charles Nelson Reilly
It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'
Charles Nelson Reilly
If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.
Charles Nelson Reilly
A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordinary because of the people who have loved me. I say twilight because of what people say to me in the supermarket.
Charles Nelson Reilly
If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life.
Charles Nelson Reilly
Everyone should have hair. When you get dressed up, you must do that last whip of hair spray, or life's not worth living.
Charles Nelson Reilly
Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.
Charles Nelson Reilly
The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.
Charles Nelson Reilly
Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.
Charles Nelson Reilly