Gary Lockwood Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Get out there and see what a vast world it is and all the different people in it and all the different problems and how f***ed up religion is. I don't care if you are religious, I'll insult you anyway.

I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.

I feel that what science fiction filmmakers are doing now is nice technically, but storywise, it's kind of lame.

I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.

I'm a typical California boy.

My whole life's been kind of nuts and fun. I went up the Amazon in '68; that was one of the coolest things I ever did.

STAR TREK wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Trivia

Gary was to star in a movie in 1985 about Boston Marathon runner Dick Molen with himself in the lead and Kim Novak as the co-star, but troubles with producers and promoters shut the production down.

Gary's most famous role was as doomed astronaut Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

Gary worked as a stand-in for Anthony Perkins.