Matt Asner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There is no great spread of influence by the moguls.
So that it's spread throughout the country.
The union, in my opinion, has been destroyed.
So it's no longer the watchdog that it used to be.
And the celebrities don't put out for it like they used to.
I got my card, I think, when I was 19.
I didn't save up.
You know, I once asked him, you know, what would you have done if you hadn't been an actor?
What would you have done?
And he looked at me very seriously and said, the alternative is just too horrible to think about.
Did I say that?
Went to work in steel mills and auto plants to find out what real life was about.
That kept me going for a while.
Well, that's why I welcomed universal service.
I thought, how great to take every youth.
Before he could go to college, take him for a year, a year and a half, two years into national service.
It didn't matter what it was.