Norman Lear

“We were all created in the image of God, and yet we were all created differently.”

“Life is a collaboration. And when you're in a family, it's a collaboration.”

“You can't have a character that isn't flawed. You can't have a character that's just a hero. They have to have a flaw.”

“I've been a liberal my whole life. I was a Roosevelt Democrat.”

“The next great moment for me is the next.”

“Humor is the other side of caring.”

“I never, ever, in my life, have been without a cause.”

“We're all a little crazy. And that's what makes life interesting.”

“What's happened is that we have moved from a feeling of responsibility for our fellow man to a feeling of 'I've got mine, you get yours.'”

“Even a flop is a hit. It's a hit because it's on.”

“I think of myself as a bleeding-heart liberal, and I'm not ashamed of it.”

“I want to be remembered as a loving fool.”

“Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it.”

“The things that made me laugh are the facts of life and the frailty of the human condition.”

“I think the message of the American dream is that any human being can change his or her life.”