A biography for Mike Connorshasn’t been written yet.
“One of these days I gotta get both knees replaced.”
“It took 10 years before I got any kind of recognition, with the 'Tightrope' series in the '60s. Until that time I was doing half-hour Westerns and small parts.”
“If the audience objects to a show, they don't watch.”
“I had a brief conversation with Tracy when I was doing 'Tightrope.' He said he and Kate Hepburn always watched the show and he told me how important listening was and I've never forgotten what he said. I watch every Tracy film I can.”
“Let me tell you, lying on the floor is the easiest acting I've ever done.”
“It seems logical to me that a television star with 40 million viewers would bring to a movie a very large number of fans who would want to see him in anything he made.”
“What I don't like is having someone saying ahead of time what I can see and what I can't.”
“It's a well-known fact for actors that the snakes get the best lines.”
“Basically, I like action-type characters.”
“The public just gets tired of seeing so many of the same kind of show.”
“I think the tendency is for people to try to blame everything on TV, the Pill or Vietnam, just because that's the easiest thing to do.”
“Barbecuing shish kebab is my mainstay. Other than that, I'm not really much of a cook.”
“I'll bet nine out of 10 scripts that are sent to me are for action parts.”
“The audience enjoys a good action show, it's entertainment, escape.”
“I guess the main reason for the lack of series about clergymen is the limitations their shows might face on TV.”
“All the time I was growing up, I was taught crime doesn't pay.”
“At one point I was so desperate for work that I got a bunch of rich Armenian farmers to finance a movie for me at American International Pictures. It was a nine-day quickie called 'The Flesh and the Spur,' and everyone made money out of it except me and my Armenian backers.”
“I know a lot of guys are unhappy about being stuck in TV series. But, believe me, I remember when I was making 50 bucks a week, and sometimes I think those guys have forgotten.”
“I'd like to do some theater.”
“Everybody reacts differently when confronted by different people.”