Wayne Rogers Quotes

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

You can't change the market; the market just is.

I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.

I have an appetite to always learn.

Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.

Entrepreneurs bring to business ... creativity.

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody who is untrustworthy.

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.

Everybody thinks they deserve something.

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.

Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.

If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.