Quotes by Robert Stack

About Robert Stack:

Robert Stack was an American actor, sportsman, and television host. In addition to acting in more than 40 feature films, he starred in the 1959–63 ABC-TV hit television series The Untouchables, for which he won the 1960 Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series, and later hosted Unsolved Mysteries from 1987 until 2002. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Written on the Wind in 1956.
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These are icons to be treasured.

Robert Stack

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

Robert Stack

I find these shows very touching sometimes.

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I am very pro law enforcement.

Robert Stack

Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.

Robert Stack

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

Robert Stack

Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy.

Robert Stack

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

Robert Stack

In terms of segments, I think we've done 1,200.

Robert Stack

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Robert Stack

In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened o...

Robert Stack

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

Robert Stack

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

Robert Stack

Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together.

Robert Stack

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

Robert Stack

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

Robert Stack

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

Robert Stack

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.

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Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.

Robert Stack

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

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Author Bio

  • NameRobert Stack
  • Descriptionactor
  • BornJanuary 13, 1919
  • DiedMay 14, 2003
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Voice Actor