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7 quotes by Charles Kimbrough

Charles Kimbrough (born May 23, 1936) is an American actor known for having played the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown. In 1990, his performance in the role earned him a nomination for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series".
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I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off... →

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When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or... →

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I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

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I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

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It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.

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Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as... →

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I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do.... →

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