Kurtwood Smith Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

I started in college (Stanford), and then at a Shakespeare festival in Santa Clara. I did that every summer for seven years. When people ask where I got my training, I tell them that's it.

If I had not gotten along so well with some of the people on the show, it would have been a different story. But in this case, it was great. But sure, it will be fun to look around.

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.

We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

That we should practise what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practise must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

Trivia

Before his sitcom success, he was a longtime character actor usually playing cops, crooks, and other tough guys.

Kurt's stepfather passed away when That 70's Show first went into production.

Kurt's real father passed away in World War II when he was an infant.

Kurt says people often approach him and ask him to call them a dumb-ass.

Smith attended Canoga Park High School.

Kurt voices radio ads for the Chicago White Sox.

His son, who goes by the stage name Dr. Sauce (his real name is Shannon Smith), hosted a radio show at Stanford University in the mid-to-late 1990s and played guitar in a band called The Vulcaneers.

Since 1988, Kurt has been married to actress Joan Pirkle.

Kurt married Cecilia Souza in 1964. They had two kids before they got divorced in 1974.

Kurt has two different colored eyes. Green and grey

Kurtwood worked briefly as a drama teacher at Ca?ada College, Redwood City, CA.