Bill Bixby quotes Born: 01/22/1934 Died: 11/21/1993 Country: usa

• The only way to grow is to risk failure. Be unique! Not a copy! I'd rather be copied. (Bill Bixby) [unique]
• A person has got to have the right to be wrong, to make mistakes. You must stick your neck out and try. There is no need to apologize if you try and fail. On the contrary, you can look anyone right in the eye. (Bill Bixby) [right/fail/look/right]
• So, I work on instinct and start probing with remarks and I have an indication of what the person is like before they even open their mouth. (Bill Bixby) [instinct/start]
• I'll say one thing for television. It has taken children and educated them far beyond anything I was ever involved with as a child. (Bill Bixby) [thing/television/child]
• I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network. (Bill Bixby) [people/vote/right/government]
• Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track. (Bill Bixby) [situation/music]
• I'm a loner as a person, but then I always was, even as a child. (Bill Bixby) [child]
• Money doesn't mean anything because the value of it can be reduced instantly and it's gone. Possessions don't mean anything because they can be stolen. But time--there's nothing else of such value that I can see and there's never enough of it. (Bill Bixby) [money/value/value]
• The idea of having pride, the idea of manners, I think is very, very important. There's just too little of it in the world and I think there are certain dignities in life to which we should all aspire. (Bill Bixby) [pride/etiquette/think/think]
• [Work] allowed me to put my energies some place and focus them some place and relieve myself for awhile of confronting the traumatic circumstances that were occurring in my life. So work has always been a friend to me. (Bill Bixby) [life]
• Anytime the sponsors or networks aren't beefing, that's the time to start worrying. There are really two reasons: either they are perfectly happy with the way your show is going, which is highly unlikely, or they've already written you off and haven't gotten around to writing up your cancellation notice, yet. (Bill Bixby) [time/start]
• Do you realize if one-tenth of one-percent write out of possibly 40 million viewers - 40,000 write - the weight that would carry? Is that too much to ask - that one tenth of one per cent be attentive to what they see? To take control of their own lives? Or do they want to remain children and give that control away? (Bill Bixby) [/take/control/give]
• We will not be able to fund all state mandates in the coming year, ... The one mandate which we will meet is for a balanced budget. (Bill Bixby) [willpower/state/willpower/budget]
• We got some financial aid the first year, but not what we were qualified for. (Bill Bixby)
• We even went to a class about financial aid at the school, ... We thought, 'Oh, we're going to learn all about financial aid tonight.' We walked away and we didn't know any more than the day we walked into the class. (Bill Bixby) [class/school/more/day]
• I just don't think he can stay, ... There's just no finances available. (Bill Bixby) [think]
• It's unbelievable, how many grants and scholarships are available through the colleges and universities that people never tap into (Bill Bixby) [people]
• (We) got an extra $1,500 for writing a letter. (Bill Bixby) [/letter]
• Stop county government at some point in the year and inform the state that we've gone out of business. (Bill Bixby) [government/point/state/business]
• It's overwhelming, pages and pages of things you don't really understand as a lay person or just as a parent, so I handed them all over to Bill, he's a CPA, ... I figured he can certainly figure this out. He says, 'I'm not sure I can understand all of this. (Bill Bixby)
• I have a passion against wasting time, and that's just what you're doing if you don't take time in a group to get to listen to others. Everybody has a quality worth finding if you only make the effort to discover it. (Bill Bixby) [pleasure/time/take/time]
• I have to go off by myself to keep a balance. I can't always be, "Bill the actor." I must stop and gain perspective so as not to confuse my role and my person. (Bill Bixby) [balance/role]
• Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'. (Bill Bixby) [face]
• There's something we haven't mentioned here. This is a business. Phooey to the art form. You should use a businessman's head when doing it. Not an actor's head or you'll starve to death. (Bill Bixby) [business/art/form/death]
• You know how this business is. It limits a performer, it makes him a specialist. That's great if you want to be a star; bad if you want to be an actor. I've always wanted to be an actor. (Bill Bixby) [business/bad]
• I would have to agree with the fact that most actors are schizophrenic. They are able to escape in other roles. Of course, many of your own personal manifestations go into that characterization. . . . (Bill Bixby) [actors]
• The Hulk is the personification of the enemy which lurks under the surface of us all. We have to control that enemy within ourselves, or we can't control the conduct of the world. (Bill Bixby) [control/control]
• The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male. (Bill Bixby) [situation]
• Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why." (Bill Bixby) [parents/watch/watch/president]
• TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty. (Bill Bixby) [honesty]
• As a viewer, I want to make the choice as to when to laugh. I don't want to be told. I want to get credit for some kind of intelligence. (Bill Bixby) [choice/intelligence]

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