Kent McCord Quotes
"Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood."
- Kent McCord
"True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Business, Hollywood, Myths)
"That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Time, Thought, Acting, First, Learning)
"Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Work, Writers)
"Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world."
- Kent McCord
(Related: College, World)
"Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Day)
"Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence."
- Kent McCord
"I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Work, Baby)
"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Animals, Land, Rivers, Trees)
"Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Home, Children, Hollywood, Now, Old)
"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Children, Example)
"I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Nature, Children, Country, Want)
"I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Wife, Decisions, Woman)
"I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally."
- Kent McCord
"I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Time, Flying)
"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Education, Needs)
"I answer a fan with a hearing heart first."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Heart, First, Hearing)
"Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Feelings, Awareness, Consideration, Courtesy, Friends)
"Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities."
- Kent McCord
(Related: People, Children, Forget, Parents)
"Cynthia and I are very alike in our tastes."
- Kent McCord
"A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Work, Abuse, Hell, Man)
"A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget."
- Kent McCord
(Related: People, Forget)
"I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest."
- Kent McCord
(Related: College)
"I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Work, Actor, Years)