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I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.

Alan Thicke

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Alan Thicke
Canadian - Actor
March 1, 1947 - December 13, 2016

I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

Kenya Barris

I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.

Bonnie McKee

After we did [All In The Family], that ended up being a real love fest all around. Me and Norman, Norman [Lear] and me, Rob Reiner, everybody liked everybody. So about six or seven months later I moved out to L.A. and I got a call that Norman wanted to see me. I came in and he said "ABC has given me a property that they just optioned to make into a TV series. It's from a play called Hot L Baltimore, and I want you to be in it."

Richard Masur

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

Richard Masur

I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'

Gopi Sundar

I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.

Sterling K. Brown

I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.

Kenya Barris

The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity.

Jordan Burroughs

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

Ernie J Zelinski

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

Donald Wildmon

Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that in the 1980s and 1990s.

Nahnatchka Khan

King Lear by William Shakespeare frightens me. I've never done King Lear, I guess partially because my father dwindled into dementia in his last years and King Lear is such an accurate portrayal of a father figure suffering from dementia - the play was almost intolerable for me.

Gregory Doran

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

Ryan Murphy

My first movie ever was 'Breaking Away.' I stumbled into an incredible part in a movie that was incredible to be a part of. Peter Yates, the director, became a lifelong friend. He sort of plucked me from obscurity and gave me a life.

Daniel Stern

David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.

Kyle MacLachlan

Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm looking forward to meeting. What he did, with shows and sitcoms, he's my hero.

Tyler Perry

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