Ted Cassidy

If things get slow, I can always drop around to the gym and dunk a few.

— Ted Cassidy

It's not enough to be 6 feet 9 to get along in this world.

— Ted Cassidy

One doesn't take a day off from love.

— Ted Cassidy

I did play semi-pro ball for a time. It was the line of least resistance.

— Ted Cassidy

Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.

— Ted Cassidy

I get no amusement having people eyeball me because of my size.

— Ted Cassidy

I was lucky. I missed the struggle. I don't feel I have to pay anyone back for the miserable years. I never…

— Ted Cassidy

You will probably be hearing more about this schoolboy. His name is Wilt Chamberlain.

— Ted Cassidy

That's one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don't have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and…

— Ted Cassidy

Getting Lurch's character straightened out was fun because I was brand new to professional film acting. I had only been in radio…

— Ted Cassidy

Max Baer called me one morning and told me that Carl Foreman was making a movie based on the book 'Mackenna's Gold'…

— Ted Cassidy

Whenever I'd find myself talking to someone in the kitchen of their home, I'd automatically rest my arm on the refrigerator, simply…

— Ted Cassidy

You know, I can't tell you that I'm very fond of anything I've done, including - and especially- 'The Addams Family.' That's…

— Ted Cassidy

It doesn't matter if you're big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least…

— Ted Cassidy

Acting Is unlike any other profession in the world. It's a succession of jobs. When 'The Addams Family' ends, however good you…

— Ted Cassidy

It was nice to be working steadily and piling up some money in the bank but there really wasn't much to do…

— Ted Cassidy

I turned down a part in 'Petticoat Junction.' They wanted me to play a circus giant. I didn't want to take that…

— Ted Cassidy

I got to know the cast pretty well. Not so much Leonard Nimoy, I got to know William Shatner pretty well. They…

— Ted Cassidy

I've been a tough sailor, a foppish-type landscape gardener, a French villain, a circus strongman.

— Ted Cassidy

I don't get the sense of doing anything of national importance. I travel to the studio, work and go home.

— Ted Cassidy

I never mention my size when I'm after a job in show business.

— Ted Cassidy

An actor feels the dilemma of being a human being and through his art tries to explain the condition of man.

— Ted Cassidy

I turned 30 and decided if I was going to try acting I had better try or wind up still holding a…

— Ted Cassidy

Only as a child is one truly innocent. When he grows, he must pull on one veneer after another.

— Ted Cassidy

There's not too much opportunity to do that in ordinary life... there's not too much call for hatchet throwers.

— Ted Cassidy

Lurch's quietness is a result of personal dignity. He appreciates things of quality. His greatest joy is playing Bach on the harpsichord,…

— Ted Cassidy

I didn't only play Lurch. I also was 'Thing,' the hand that came up and on-camera every now and then. You should…

— Ted Cassidy

I think kids like Lurch because he's kind of an earthbound superman. They know he's physically strong and they sense that he's…

— Ted Cassidy

I figure, I want to get a role on my ability, not my size. And anyway, after the director or producer sees…

— Ted Cassidy

There is no gainsaying that Lurch has put me where I am today. Lurch bought the house I live in. But what's…

— Ted Cassidy