Robert Osborne
Robert Osborne
Robert Jolin Osborneis an American film historian and former actor best known as the primary host for Turner Classic Movies. Prior to TCM, Osborne had been a host on The Movie Channel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth3 May 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.
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I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.
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I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry.
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I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.
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When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.
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Most of those big movies are not that wonderful. This trend toward honoring smaller films ù it's a very healthy one.
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My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies.
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I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.
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My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.
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In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.
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I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.
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I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.
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I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.
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Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing.