When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

- Wayne Rogers

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

- Wayne Rogers

We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

- Wayne Rogers

We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

- Wayne Rogers

We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

- Wayne Rogers

What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.

- Wayne Rogers

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

- Wayne Rogers

To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.

- Wayne Rogers

You can't change the market; the market just is.

- Wayne Rogers

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

- Wayne Rogers

You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

- Wayne Rogers

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.

- Wayne Rogers

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

- Wayne Rogers

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

- Wayne Rogers

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

- Wayne Rogers

There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.

- Wayne Rogers

There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

- Wayne Rogers

The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody who is untrustworthy.

- Wayne Rogers

The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.

- Wayne Rogers

Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

- Wayne Rogers