Bill Bixby Quotes

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

(On receiving the script for "The Incredible Hulk" (1978) pilot) I didn`t even like the title. I wanted to make fun of it because of its name. I told my agent, "You`ve got to be kidding!" when he suggested I might be interested in it. He said, "Read it!" and so I took it home and thanks to his intelligence, I did read it. Right away I knew this could be done in the style of the monster pictures or the creature films of the 1940s. But one advantage we enjoy over the previous monster pictures is that the Hulk is not evil.

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.

Work really was a catalyst by which I was able to maintain a sense of balance, and coming back...I don`t know that you come back. You go on, you endure. (on returning to work after the death of his son Christopher)

(on the cancellation of "The Courtship of Eddie`s Father" (1969)) I cannot tell you how disappointed I was. I wanted that series to go on to the point when it came to the teenage stage and we could deal with these problems in an honest contemporary way. But our time slot was changed so often we weren`t given a fighting chance. You can`t expect people to find you at home when you change your address so often.

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.

Everyone fantasizes. We all want to be something we`re not.

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.

I have learned that there is no way to succeed in anything unless you are willing to try--and trying means you run the risk of failure.

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.

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`.

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.

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.

I`m a loner as a person, but then I always was, even as a child.