If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

I'm too tired to hate.

The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own, baby.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.