maybe it doesn t work with green acres, but on many of these shows, that s why night after night you turn on these serials and they all seem as if they came out of the same bread box. back then you had lots and lots of copycats. you have the addams family and then the munsters, you have bewitched and then i dream of jeanie. the old saying imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. if one person is doing this fantastical hit, we re going to do that. now, is that considered a crime? i m afraid not. there aren t any laws to protect us against bad tv shows yet. so you re safe. well, thank you. what i m surprised by are some of the shows i can t even imagine the pitch meetings for. like hogan s heroes. it s a story about american prisoners of war in a nazi concentration camp which doesn t sound like it s a funny comedy.
bewitched. and then i dream of jeanie. if one person is doing this fantastical hit, we re going to do that. now, is that considered a crime? i m afraid not. there aren t any laws to protect us against bad tv shows yet. so you re safe. well, thank you. what i m surprised by are some of the shows i can t even imagine the pitch meetings for. like hogan s heroes. it s a story about american prisoners of war in a nazi concentration camp which doesn t sound like it s a funny comedy. why don t they trust us, schultz? that shows you how weird the 60s was right there. there is another one of our fine shows this year. pit stop! a movie story of an effeminate race car driver who was really an astronaut for the mafia.
woody allen, he said to me. in all seriousness, he says, those are the sex symbols. no offense, but english was also their first language? well, that was the other thing that he mentioned. - right. - that they all mentioned to me. they said, so the body s too big. no one ever has become a leading man with an accent, especially with a german accent. maybe get you a job on hogan s heroes or something. you can play a nazi officer or something. but he said, believe me, arnold, we like you. but movies? forget about it. so how did you crack hollywood? well, so i just was persistent, because i like i said, i had my own vision, and so i chased that vision. i said to myself, okay, the amount of work that i put into bodybuilding, five, six hours a day, if i put the same amount of effort into acting, and i go to acting class and accent removal classes and speech classes and english classes and do all of this stuff, that eventually something has to happen because i m gonna get good at it
al pacino, and woody allen, that s a sex symbol. woody allen, he said to me. in all seriousness, he says, those are the sex symbols. no offense, but english was also their first language? well, that was the other thing that he mentioned. - right. - that they all mentioned to me. they said, so the body s too big. no one ever has become a leading man with an accent, especially with a german accent. maybe get you a job on hogan s heroes or something. you can play a nazi officer or something. but he said, believe me, arnold, we like you. but movies? forget about it. so how did you crack hollywood? well, so i just was persistent, because i like i said, i had my own vision, and so i chased that vision. i said to myself, okay, the amount of work that i put into bodybuilding, five, six hours a day, if i put the same amount of effort into acting, and i go to acting class and accent removal classes and speech classes and english classes and do all of this stuff, that eventually someth
shows, that s why night after night you turn on these serials and they all seem as if they came out of the same bread box. back then you had lots and lots of copycats. you have the addams family and then the munsters, you have bewitched. and then i dream of jeanie. imitation is the sincerest form of television. if one person is doing this fantastical hit, we re going to do that. now, is that considered a crime? i m afraid not. there aren t any laws to protect us against bad tv shows yet. so you re safe. well, thank you. what i m surprised by are some of the shows i can t even imagine the pitch meetings for. like hogan s heroes. it s a story about american prisoners of war in a nazi concentration camp which doesn t sound like it s a funny comedy. why don t they trust us, schultz? that shows you how weird the 60s was right there. there is another one of our fine shows this year. pit stop!