Mel Torme Quotes

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.

I was a radio presenter in Dubai for five years.

I've been working in radio on and off for most of my career. There's a restfulness about it. It's more focused on the voice, so you don't have to worry about extraneous things like sound effects, as there's someone there to look after that.

At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.

I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it's not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in acting.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

When I was about five, I could do a vaguely decent American accent - straight through kind of decent - and 'Hercules' needed some kids. I definitely wasn't a good actor.

I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.

The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.

You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.

I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.'

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.