'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted.… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more.… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
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… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
