Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
All television is children's television.
Richard P. Adler Imitation is the sincerest form of television. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. George Gobel Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living.