You know I’ve never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it’s all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt. – Norman Lloyd
The Jews are an artistic people. It’s clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives. – Norman Lloyd
I’m very proud of the people with whom I’ve worked. It’s an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened. – Norman Lloyd
I loved ‘Modern Family!’ It was sort of the precursor to ‘Trainwreck,’ to that character. But I loved it. I had a great time doing it. – Norman Lloyd
When I think back on it, it’s amazing what happens to us as we move out into the world. – Norman Lloyd
I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people. – Norman Lloyd
If you’re in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete. – Norman Lloyd
You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn’t working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts. – Norman Lloyd
I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, ‘Well, if I’m going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.’ – Norman Lloyd
I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I’ve been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor. – Norman Lloyd
My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish ‘colony’ there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York. – Norman Lloyd
I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies’ club. – Norman Lloyd
I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that. – Norman Lloyd
There were little Charlie Chaplins that you would wind up, and they would walk. I remember vividly. I was sitting in the high chair with the little tray in front of me. My parents would wind it up, and it would walk to me. – Norman Lloyd
I loved working with Renoir on ‘The Southerner.’ Oh, I loved it! I particularly loved when he had a scene with a cow going through a garden, and he wanted a little dog to come and bark at it and chase it out. – Norman Lloyd