Quotes by Norman Lear

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings. (Norman Lear)

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. (Norman Lear)

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was thats not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. (Norman Lear)

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play. (Norman Lear)

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. (Norman Lear)

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it. (Norman Lear)

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins. (Norman Lear)

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldnt get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. (Norman Lear)

Im hearing all the time from young people who are watching The Jeffersons or Good Times or All In The Family. So those shows are working for them. (Norman Lear)

In the area were discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. (Norman Lear)