--- title: "18 Ifs Quotes By Rod Serling" description: "18 Ifs quotes by Rod Serling. Plus more from Rod Serling and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3df/rod-serling-2652_afraid_i-m-afraid-that-if-i-started-to-ponder-w_1763142.png" --- > [I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-m-afraid-that-if-i-started-to-ponder-who-i-am-and-what-i-am-i-might/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3df/rod-serling-2652_afraid_i-m-afraid-that-if-i-started-to-ponder-w_1763142.png) > [You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/you-can-be-a-hunchback-and-a-dwarf-and-what-all-if-you-write/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a19/rod-serling-2652_dwarfs_you-can-be-a-hunchback-and-a-dwarf-and-w_619541.png) > [If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-you-write-beautifully-you-write-beautifully-that-s-all/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/375/rod-serling-2652_beautifully_if-you-write-beautifully-you-write-beaut_1009808.png) > [Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/hollywood-s-a-great-place-to-live-if-you-re-a-grapefruit/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/520/rod-serling-2652_grapefruit_hollywood-s-a-great-place-to-live-if-you_3142691.png) > [If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-it-sounds-good-as-you-say-it-likely-as-not-it-ll-sound-good-when/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/rod-serling-2652_actor_if-it-sounds-good-as-you-say-it-likely-a_772482.png) > [If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-you-want-to-prove-that-god-is-not-dead-first-prove-that-man-is/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/704/rod-serling-2652_alive_if-you-want-to-prove-that-god-is-not-dea_11059.png) > [Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/somehow-some-way-incredibly-enough-good-writing-ultimately-gets/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/rod-serling-2652_deserve_somehow-some-way-incredibly-enough-good_3093227.png) > [If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-you-have-the-temerity-to-try-to-dramatize-a-theme-that-involves/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/459/rod-serling-2652_controversy_if-you-have-the-temerity-to-try-to-drama_1096633.jpg) > [If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-the-producer-doesn-t-like-you-consequently-he-reads-the-script/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e11/rod-serling-2652_damn_if-the-producer-doesn-t-like-you-consequ_432282.jpg) > [Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/most-shows-buying-shows-have-a-standard-fee-for-the-first-shot-of-the/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a63/rod-serling-2652_agents_most-shows-buying-shows-have-a-standard_2703078.png) > [If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-survival-calls-for-the-bearing-of-arms-bear-them-you-must-but-the/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1b/rod-serling-2652_arms_if-survival-calls-for-the-bearing-of-arm_2861125.png) > [I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-don-t-enjoy-any-of-the-process-of-writing-i-enjoy-it-when-it-goes/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/rod-serling-2652_enjoy_i-don-t-enjoy-any-of-the-process-of-writ_833590.png) > [I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-choose-to-think-of-tv-audience-as-nameless-formless-faceless-people/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1aa/rod-serling-2652_audience_i-choose-to-think-of-tv-audience-as-name_2468737.png) > [If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-you-re-really-a-good-writer-and-deserve-that-honored-position-then/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/364/rod-serling-2652_craftsman_if-you-re-really-a-good-writer-and-deser_314947.jpg) > [Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/emmies-for-example-most-of-that-s-bullshit-oscars-are-even-worse-we/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf8/rod-serling-2652_affliction_emmies-for-example-most-of-that-s-bullsh_1128846.png) > [You must always assume that the relationship between writer and producer is that of adversaries - however you slice it. They may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/you-must-always-assume-that-the-relationship-between-writer-and/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/rod-serling-2652_adversaries_you-must-always-assume-that-the-relation_1748388.png) > [I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-think-the-destiny-of-all-men-is-not-to-sit-in-the-rubble-of-their/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4f/rod-serling-2652_alive_i-think-the-destiny-of-all-men-is-not-to_2679233.png) > [This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/this-is-if-not-a-lifetime-process-it-s-awfully-close-to-it-the-writer/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/rod-serling-2652_books_this-is-if-not-a-lifetime-process-it-s-a_1910801.png) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Rod Serling > [If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-you-want-to-prove-that-god-is-not-dead-first-prove-that-man-is/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/there-is-nothing-in-the-dark-that-isn-t-there-when-the-lights-are-on/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/there-are-weapons-that-are-simply-thoughts-for-the-record-prejudices/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-don-t-believe-in-reincarnation-that-s-a-cop-out-i-know-i-don-t/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-was-deeply-interested-in-conveying-what-is-a-deeply-felt-conviction/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-in-any-quest-for-magic-in-any-search-for-sorcery-witchery/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/any-state-any-entity-any-ideology-that-fails-to-recognize-the-worth/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/it-may-be-said-with-a-degree-of-assurance-that-not-everything-that/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-don-t-know-what-my-friends-do-generally-they-become-producers-that/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-just-want-people-to-remember-me-a-hundred-years-from-now-i-don-t/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/according-to-the-bible-god-created-the-heavens-and-the-earth-it-is/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [“In his grave, we praise him for his decency - but when he walked amongst us, we responded with no decency of our own.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/in-his-grave-we-praise-him-for-his-decency-but-when-he-walked-amongst/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/if-you-re-really-a-good-writer-and-deserve-that-honored-position-then/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-would-guess-that-the-price-of-the-script-really-is-secondary-the/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) > [I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-don-t-think-it-s-man-s-function-to-write-i-don-t-think-it-s-a/) [Rod Serling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-serling/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/rod-serling/#itemlist", "name": "18 Ifs Quotes By Rod Serling", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rod Serling" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-serling/i-m-afraid-that-if-i-started-to-ponder-who-i-am-and-what-i-am-i-might/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3df/rod-serling-2652_afraid_i-m-afraid-that-if-i-started-to-ponder-w_1763142.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3df/rod-serling-2652_afraid_i-m-afraid-that-if-i-started-to-ponder-w_1763142.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3df/rod-serling-2652_afraid_i-m-afraid-that-if-i-started-to-ponder-w_1763142.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.” — Rod Serling", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. 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