Norman Lear Quotes

For me, I learned from my father that when it's over, it's over.

Endings are not my thing.

All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end

We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?

Closure. I loathe that word.

I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.

This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

That's all folks!

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

When a campaign is over, boom, it's over.

It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.

But it was an ending.

It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

It is never a mistake to say good-bye.

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.

I never look at things again once they're done.

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.