In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.
BOB GUNTONI’m not a big comic fan and I’m not a big fan of comic movies.
More Bob Gunton Quotes
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My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.
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I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.
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I actually acted onstage before I’d ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.
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As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.
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Put your trust in the Lord….your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.
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I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.
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Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon’s.
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I’m not a big comic fan and I’m not a big fan of comic movies.
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Most people recognize me from The Shawshank Redemption, but there is this subculture of people who have collected all 13 episodes of Greg The Bunny.
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And I’m a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.
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