Robert Conrad Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Barry Sonnenfeld said, 'I have to make this my film.' Well, Barry, you succeeded because it ain't a film I can identify with.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

I think we were selling, at that time, not any different than they're selling today.

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to.

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

It's so much sexier to be subtle, to maybe have tight pants and take your shirt off and see these beautiful women on the train every week.

Jon Peters gave us 'Batman' and now he's given us 'Wild West.' Fortunately he can fall back on what he does best - he's a hairdresser!

Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.

The reviews put this thing in jeopardy. But if it does do big numbers, one guy should take the credit: Will Smith.

There are so many actors who are dwarfs, midgets, little people who could have qualified for that role. How dare you.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.

Will, God bless him, he's a hit, go for it. Well, I mean as an actor, what young actor wouldn't want to do that?

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.

Trivia

Actor

When the 1999 movie remake of WILD WILD WEST swept the 20th Annual Razzie Awards, "winning" 5 statuettes (including Worst Picture) Conrad, who played James West in the original 1960s TV series, accepted 3 of the awards in person as his way of expressing his low opinion of what had been done with his source material.