Ed Asner

Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn. ”

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it. ”

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

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

To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was. ”

I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it. ”

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful. ”

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that. ”

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. ”

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