Norman Lloyd Quotes
I don't eat shellfish. I drink wine moderately and have one whiskey every evening before dinner.
King, Susan. "Norman Lloyd at 100: 'I am so lucky'." Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2014.
There was no Federal regulation of food and drink then. Fast buck whisky purveyors would include all kinds of ingredients and processes, safe and sanitary or not. Many Americans died or became very sick from eating tainted food then. Even bad whisky had killed many. TR chose whisky as his example, because Congress was filled with heavy drinkers and whisky was then the favorite Congressional drink. Roosevelt, with these tactics got the first federal food regulatory laws passed over enourmous opposition, not unlike the fight over Obamacare which would take place a century later.
Norman Lloyd is an American actor, producer and director with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century. He has worked in every major facet of the industry including theatre, radio, television and film, with a career that started in 1923. His most recent film, Trainwreck, was released in 2015, after Lloyd had attained 100 years of age.