'Russell Baker' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Baker, Russell Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Way West

  1995, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Masterpiece Theatre

  1971, role: actor , character name: Himself

Baker, Russell Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Minx

  1969, role: actor , character name: Mr. Oppenheimer
• Play in Full Screen Mirage

  1965, role: actor , character name: Minor Role

Baker, Russell Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Triggered

  2013, role: actor , character name: Dan Kendrick

Famous quotes by Russell Baker:

"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday."

"Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity."

"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world."

"Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years."

"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."

"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."

"Ah, summer - what power you have to make us suffer and like it"

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."

"It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent."

"You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause."

"You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart."

"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

"Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism."

"Americans like fat books and thin women."

"Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life."

"In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses."