Norman Lear Quotations

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

Life is about having a good time.

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.

The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

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

The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.