Mike Connors

If the audience objects to a show, they don't watch.

— Mike Connors

Eight years of doing 'Mannix' meant getting up at 5:30 and not getting home until 8 or 9 in the evening. Lunches…

— Mike Connors

I'd like to do some theater.

— Mike Connors

TV has a responsibility to prepare our kids to face the world.

— Mike Connors

Very often, as a producer, you find you have to make decisions and compromises.

— Mike Connors

Mannix' ran for eight seasons, and naturally, you are really typecast.

— Mike Connors

I'd much prefer to have a laugh instead of a fight.

— Mike Connors

When I was a kid, my greatest escape was motion pictures.

— Mike Connors

I did a lot of my stunts - the fighting and the running - the stuff I could do on the ground.…

— Mike Connors

Many people think cops are as bad as the bad guys. There are some rotten apples, but most of them are good…

— Mike Connors

We have the very best censoring devices in our own homes. If we don't like what we see on television, we can…

— Mike Connors

I won't do a movie that's dull.

— Mike Connors

TV stardom isn't all bliss. Got to learn to handle yourself very carefully sometimes if you want to avoid trouble.

— Mike Connors

Mannix got emotionally involved. He was not above being taken advantage of.

— Mike Connors

Acting is such an insecure business, mainly because your career is always in somebody else's hands unless you're Robert Redford, Steve McQueen…

— Mike Connors

What I don't like is having someone saying ahead of time what I can see and what I can't.

— Mike Connors

I'd like to a major studio. My feeling is that a lot of money can be saved making pictures.

— Mike Connors

Dana, our daughter, was the best pizza baker around.

— Mike Connors

I work when something special comes along or if a friend calls me.

— Mike Connors

My first movie was 'Sudden Fear' with Joan Crawford, and I remember I played a lawyer.

— Mike Connors

Television is self-censoring.

— Mike Connors

The light, humorous touch works well for 'Columbo,' 'McMillan and Wife,' and 'McCloud.'

— Mike Connors

If I had my druthers, I'd do television movies, a Broadway play or maybe a miniseries like 'Columbo.'

— Mike Connors

One of these days I gotta get both knees replaced.

— Mike Connors

I'll bet nine out of 10 scripts that are sent to me are for action parts.

— Mike Connors