Robert Blake: Self

Quotes 

• Robert Blake : Every couple of months, we call the lawyers, and divide up the kids and the furniture, and throw things, and do the whole - just push it as far as we can. And just kinda run it right into the toilet until it's out of gas. And then it's over.

  Johnny Carson : Then you're back together again.

  Robert Blake : Yeah.

  Johnny Carson : Now you tell me.

• Robert Blake : [on Wally Cox' advice]  My philosophy is "don't do the crime, if you can't do the time". And I'd be - I'd be afraid there'd be a lot of heavy time that I would not be prepared to do. And he says, "Well, Robert, there's a way around that." And he's hiking along. I say, "What is that, Wally?" 'Cause I'd like to know what that way around would be. He said, "Well, you go ahead, and you have your little caprice - have your little affair. And if the bag turns out to be a drag, well, you're lucky - you just walk away. And if it turns out to be terrific, well, you shoot her."

• Johnny Carson : That's like writing a letter, when you're angry at somebody - sit down and write the letter, don't send it. And say all of the things that you're angry at, and put the stamp on it - and then throw it away, or put it in the drawer. Say it's sometimes - it does the same thing.

  Robert Blake : I didn't get to that yet.

  Johnny Carson : You haven't...

  Robert Blake : I still send the letter.

• Robert Blake : They put some big star with a - with a lady, and they go in the tank. So they stick him with another guy, and they go off in the sunset together, and it makes a lot of money.

  Fernando Lamas : Yeah. And we never know what they do beyond the sunset, those two!

  Robert Blake : Yeah. That's a strange phenomenon...

  Fernando Lamas : Very strange.

  Robert Blake : That really is true.

  Fernando Lamas : That is.

  Robert Blake : You don't see John Garfield and Paulette Goddard go off in the sunset - it's Redford and Newman.

  Fernando Lamas : Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Yeah.

  Johnny Carson : Well, progress; I don't know.

  Robert Blake : That's progress.

  Fernando Lamas : Let's be broad-minded; what the hell.

• Johnny Carson : Are you Italian?

  Victoria Principal : Am I Italian? Principale - Vittoria!

  Johnny Carson : You've another Italian over here.

  Fernando Lamas : Oh - you *are* Italian, eh?

  Robert Blake : *I* used to be Italian.

  Victoria Principal : Did you?

  Johnny Carson : Before the operation.