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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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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I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.
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I went to California at a perfect time... when many of those people that I had admired so much in films were not working that much. They had free time on their hands to talk to... me, and they liked me because I knew so much about them.
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There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.
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You see a Clint Eastwood movie, and you might not know if it's from Universal or Warner Bros. or another studio. He has affiliations with so many studios now, but there was a time when you'd just look at a movie and think, 'Oh, that's a Warner Bros. film.'
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He shows great potential, but he's not there yet. But they weren't 'there' after being in the public eye for as short a time as Clooney has. It takes a long time to be a Cary Grant, to win the affection of the world the way he did.
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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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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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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.