Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Bonnie Hammer

Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we're building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.

For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.

To put it bluntly, I feel relevant and valuable, and I am struggling to understand why, when women reach age 65, they encounter an invisible barrier of perception that says it's time to walk away. Shouldn't we have a choice in the matter? Shouldn't our experience and energy be worth more?

The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.

My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.

Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.

I can't tell you how many meetings I open up with, 'My voice is last.' I don't want anybody to hear my opinion before I hear everybody else's opinion.

You can't trademark the word 'sci-fi.'

My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.

I'm a Brooklyn-born, Queens-raised, Manhattan-honed New York gal who entered college with only the vaguest ideas about what was coming next.

I wouldn't be comfy going toe to toe launching a new scripted show against broadcast.

My Hollywood is a place where anything can happen, where dreams can become reality, and reality often morphs into fiction. It's a place where people's day jobs create magic.

E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

Some mentors are more challenging than others.

Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.

I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.

I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working so hard.

Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person who pushes, criticizes, and challenges you to meet a standard of excellence you might not otherwise achieve.

If I say something, I mean it. If I promise something, best as I can, I'm going to follow through. If I say I have your back, I genuinely mean it.

Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into sci-fi than anyone expects.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

I didn't really have a road map ever.

As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

As a working woman at the height of my career, I know age has only enhanced my professional and personal abilities. It has brought a sense of calm to the drive for success.

'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

Channel brand is so key.

The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.

Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its success. We looked at what was working and why it was working.

I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

I bobbed and weaved through my career. And in hindsight, though I'd like to say it was a plan - it was not - the bobbing and the weaving gave me a broad base from which to become an executive who could say, 'OK, I've done this, and I've done this, and I've done this.' And nobody could BS me, because I'd done most of it.

The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.

We can sit back and be part of a hurting America, or we can channel our energy into something positive and do what we can to break the cycle of hate.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.

It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.

The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that when you really need to be loud, nobody listens.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

I've never wanted to be a woman playing a guy; I love being a woman.

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

I always want to do better; I always want to find a new challenge.

E! has the possibility of growing exponentially, and yes, I believe it could be a top 10 network.

Oftentimes, when a movie turns into a series, you never retain the creative auspices. You buy the idea, you buy the franchise, and then you bring in a whole new creative team and copy the tone or sensibility.

My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men: that it was for young men, and that it was for geeky young men. We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre.

Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.

In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'

I've not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.