Ken Howard

Professions :

Actor

How we take care of our animals is a very good indicator of how we are doing as a society. It is symbolic of how, as human beings, we go about treating each other.

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I was raised on Long Island. There were a lot of cops and firefighters who lived there.

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Service that benefits the community and those in need is an act that betters us all.

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The reason I got into this union was to bring people together.

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Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing group.

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I was involved with sports and student government, the regular stuff. I liked movies and all, but I did love the singing and putting on musicals, and I was always comfortable with that. I liked it.

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I never mind going in for an audition for something.

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After 'The White Shadow' was over, I did some more work, but then I wound up taking a year off to teach at Harvard. It afforded me the chance to have a variegated career - a very interesting one.

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I've always been attracted to independent, outspoken women.

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I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.

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Bobby Cremins really knows basketball, and he is a good man, too.

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IMDb publishes the actual dates of birth of thousands of actors without their consent, most of them not celebrities but rank-and-file actors whose names are unknown to the general public.

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Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

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I'm really happy to have been part of spreading the game of basketball and growing the game in a place like Turkey.

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Pension and health benefits are a cornerstone of union protection. When actors' work is split between two unions, that protection is weakened or, in the worst cases, eliminated. That's not acceptable, and it's one of many reasons merging SAG and AFTRA makes sense.

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Good coaches, as we all know, can have amazing influences on boys.

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I have no theories about the divorce rate or things like that, but it does occur to me that dealing with kids and their problems can be real binding glue. It keeps you out of the range of too much ego.

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I've always been entranced when it came to musical comedy; it's probably my favorite thing. It's a real true American form, and it's big, like Shakespeare big, when it's right. It's loud, and it's big: you have to be ready vocally and physically. It can bring people to their feet and can be as thrilling as a circus.

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Unifying the legacy SAG and AFTRA contracts was essential, and I am very pleased that we were able to achieve that.

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When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

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