All Rod Serling Quotes
- If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep… Any
- How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? Dancing
- You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet… Animal
- Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic. Becoming
- There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. Destroy
- There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.… Beyond
- It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits… Advertising
- There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on. Dark
- Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. Acting
- Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. Imagination
- Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. Becomes
- It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. Appears
- This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as… Bizarre
- Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete Any
- We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think. Able
- ...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to… Almost Everything
- for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized Civilization
- In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never… All
- I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not… Acting
- If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit. Any
- Being like everybody is the same as being nobody. Everybody
- All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because they are a… All
- You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was… Assunder
- Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest. Coming
- For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for… All