Parker Stevenson Quotes

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you’re aware of the ratings, you aren’t prepared for the response of the fans.

  Parker Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sunset, Suffered, Sunrise

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that’s what I studied in college. That’s what I always wanted to do.

  Parker Stevenson

  Topics in College

  Tags in Happy, Like

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we’d all pull together.

  Parker Stevenson

  Tags in Patriotism, Momentum, Stirred

• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  Parker Stevenson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Northeast, Exposure

• If I have a Sunday free, I’ll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  Parker Stevenson

  Tags in Sail, Scuba

• In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

  Parker Stevenson

  Tags in Already

• In this business, you just never know from day to day. It’s one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I’m going to be doing.

  Parker Stevenson

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Entertainment

• Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the ’40s.

  Parker Stevenson

  Tags in Intellectuals

• My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

  Parker Stevenson

  Tags in Architecture

• Suddenly you’re surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don’t know what they want, and you don’t know what they want, unless it’s an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.

  Parker Stevenson

  Tags in Grinning, Sort

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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