Quotes by Norman Lear

Norman Lear

America is a country of excess.

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Excess

Archie Bunker used to call me ‘the laziest white kid he’d ever met.’

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As a matter of fact, when people ask where my ‘point of view’ comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

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As H.L. Mencken once said, ‘nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.’ Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

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Thinking

Underestimate

Bud [Yorkin] broke out big when he did ‘The Fred Astaire Show’ and won four Emmys. His wife at the time suggested that we team up. We got a lot of press in show business papers, and a number of offers…we eventually signed with Paramount Pictures. But I always like to say, his was the horse that we rode in on. That is my favorite recollection.

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Culturally, I think ‘All in the Family’ was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

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Timing

I don’t know how you can look back with regret if you’re at a moment when everything seems fine.

Looks

Moments

Regret

I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.

California

Facts

People

I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors – John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.

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I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

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Quotes by Norman Lear

Norman Lear

America is a country of excess.

Archie Bunker used to call me ‘the laziest white kid he’d ever met.’

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my ‘point of view’ comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

As H.L. Mencken once said, ‘nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.’ Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

Culturally, I think ‘All in the Family’ was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

I don’t know how you can look back with regret if you’re at a moment when everything seems fine.

I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.

I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors – John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

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