"You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air"
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The subtext is a gentle deflation of glamour. "Play games" isn't just cute; it signals how little of the actor's day is spent doing the part everyone imagines is the hard part. It also hints at the social reality of studio work: camaraderie as coping mechanism, boredom managed communally, professionalism expressed as readiness rather than constant performance.
Context matters: York came up in an era when TV still carried the residue of radio and theater - live broadcasts, tightly timed cues, effects executed like practical magic in the room. His phrasing centers the "sound effects people" and "music cues", quietly acknowledging that the performance is co-authored. The actor waits; the show is built around him. Then the light goes on, and the ordinary day becomes the broadcast everyone remembers.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
York, Dick. (2026, January 17). You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/youd-go-in-read-the-script-once-for-timing-and-48611/
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York, Dick. "You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/youd-go-in-read-the-script-once-for-timing-and-48611/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/youd-go-in-read-the-script-once-for-timing-and-48611/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
