Mike Connors

“They killed off variety shows and they killed off Westerns by having too many of the same thing.”

“Most of my friends who have done well financially, from television series and investments, are still insecure about acting. They don't need the work to live. They have all the money in the world. But they need the work to live inside.”

“I usually don't read a script until the day before at lunch or at night when I go home.”

“Mannix' is designed to be sheer entertainment we don't preach or have any message to impart to our audience.”

“My first movie was 'Sudden Fear' with Joan Crawford, and I remember I played a lawyer.”

“Television is self-censoring.”

“I'm not your usual glamorous Hollywood party goer.”

“Usually you're forced to do what necessity demands, and pleasure is a luxury.”

“We used to shoot the 'Mannix' episodes at about $250,000 for an hour action show.”

“I did a lot of my stunts - the fighting and the running - the stuff I could do on the ground. But the dangerous stunts - driving cars off cliffs and being in wrecks or big falls, I didn't get into that.”

“I was quite a rough guy-playing basketball.”

“I won't do a movie that's dull.”

“We did a lot of action on 'Mannix' but it didn't take much out of me.”

“Sometimes I think the public judges the mistakes of lawmen too quickly.”

“I'd like to a major studio. My feeling is that a lot of money can be saved making pictures.”

“I think people knew the name Joe Mannlx better than my own name.”

“I don't have a yen to be just a movie actor.”

“Mannix' ran for eight seasons, and naturally, you are really typecast.”

“At the time I came off 'Mannix,' it was taboo to use a TV star in motion pictures.”

“I knew the type of acting I liked - that very natural type of acting, but I just wanted to be successful. So, whatever. I was willing to do anything that they'd hire me for.”