Tim Reid Quotes

“What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. Id been up for so many of those! Id had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasnt interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For WKRP, too much of either would be bad.”
— Tim Reid —