Ted Cassidy

“It's not enough to be 6 feet 9 to get along in this world.”

“I never mention my size when I'm after a job in show business.”

“If things get slow, I can always drop around to the gym and dunk a few.”

“Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.”

“Whenever I'd find myself talking to someone in the kitchen of their home, I'd automatically rest my arm on the refrigerator, simply because it was most convenient. I had to watch myself pretty close - I didn't mind the dusty sleeve, but that glare from the hostess was something else!”

“Acting Is unlike any other profession in the world. It's a succession of jobs. When 'The Addams Family' ends, however good you may be, when that job ends, you end. My gettng the show was a million-to-one shot.”

“There's not too much opportunity to do that in ordinary life... there's not too much call for hatchet throwers.”

“Only as a child is one truly innocent. When he grows, he must pull on one veneer after another.”

“Max Baer called me one morning and told me that Carl Foreman was making a movie based on the book 'Mackenna's Gold' and he was sure that I was right for one of the parts. He was so ebullient about it that he bent my ear for 20 minutes.”

“I did play semi-pro ball for a time. It was the line of least resistance.”