Parker Stevenson Quotes

• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people’s careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

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• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There’s a lot of craziness out there.

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• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

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• Good work is good work wherever it’s done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

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• I do interviews because it’s a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don’t have any great wisdom.

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• I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn’t afford it. It was a jewel.

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• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn’t find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

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• I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they’re excited about.

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• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn’t occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

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• If it seems like you’re doing work when you’re acting, then you’re doing something wrong.

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• I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

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• I’m more interested in where I’ll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.

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• I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

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• The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low.

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• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

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• Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the ’40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

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• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.

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  Tags in Mystical, Morning, Simply, Magical

• I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I’d like to play that’s not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.

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  Tags in Hardy, Clean Cut, Straight

• I’m going to go away on vacation, I’m going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it’s important to sit back and think about what you want.

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• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You’re so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

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  Tags in Surprises, Prep, Surprise

Parker Stevenson (30)

Birth:	4th June, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

After graduating from Brooks School, and Princeton University, where he studied architecture, he moved to Hollywood, where he landed a role opposite Sam Elliott in the film Lifeguard. Stevenson became well-known from starring with teen heartthrob Shaun Cassidy in the The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries series, which ran 1977–79 on ABC-TV. In 1983, he co-starred in the hit movie Stroker Ace as Burt Reynolds's brash race-car driving nemesis Aubrey James.

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