Paddy Chayefsky

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1923 age 0

   Born

2. 1955 age 32

   CreditMarty

   CreditMartyscreenwriter

3. 1976 age 53

   CreditNetworkscreenwriter

4. 1981 age 58

   Died

• GFGerald Ford1 title
• RDRobert Duvall1 title
• LHLance Henriksen1 title
• KKKenneth Kimmins1 title
• SLSidney Lumet1 title
• WHWilliam Holden1 title
• CFConchata Ferrell1 title
• OROwen Roizman1 title
• FDFaye Dunaway1 title
• NBNed Beatty1 title

• CANTOR: And ye shall know Him in the strangest costumes and in the strangest places.

  Paddy Chayefsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• MR FAULKNER: Give the facts a good look in the face, John.

  Paddy Chayefsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• MR HEALY: Are the people any wiser than they were a hundred years ago? Are they happier? This is the great American disease, boy! This passion for machines. Everybody is always inventing labor-saving devices. What's wrong with labor? A man's work is the sweetest thing he owns. It would do us a lot better to invent some labor-making devices. We've gone mad, boy, with this mad chase for comfort, and it's sure we're losing the very juice of living.<br>BOY: The world changes, Mister Healy. The old things go, and each of us must make peace with the new.

  Paddy Chayefsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• DAUGHTER: Life doesn't dovetail so nicely . . .

  Paddy Chayefsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Now, the word for television drama is depth, the digging under the surface of life for the more profound truths of human relationships. I cannot help but feel that this is where drama is going. People are beginning to turn into themselves, looking for personal happiness. The jargon of introspection has become everyday conversation. The theater and all its sister mediums [i.e. film; TV; books] can only be a reflection of their times, and the drama of introspection is the drama that the people want to see.

  Paddy Chayefsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• TWENTY-YEAR-OLD: I gotta girl, she's always asking me to marry her. So I look at that face, and I say to myself: "Could I stand looking at that face for the resta my life?"

  Paddy Chayefsky, CC BY-SA 4.0