Moonves, Leslie Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The 63rd Annual Tony Awards

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience
• Play in Full Screen A Celebration of Bob Barker's 50 Years in Television

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Tribute to Peter Bart: Newhouse Mirror Award

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 60th Annual Tony Awards

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• Play in Full Screen Everybody Loves Raymond: The Last Laugh

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen CBS at 75

  2003, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Frankie and Johnny Are Married

  2003, role: actor , character name: Les Moonves
• Play in Full Screen Face Time

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen CBS: The First 50 Years

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Blue Rodeo

  1996, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The 11th Annual Television Critics Association Awards

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

  1980, role: actor

Famous quotes by Leslie Moonves:

"Technology's our friend. Our goal: Take the content and use it any way we can,"

"But any of you who have dealt with me at all know that slow growth and me don't go hand in hand so well together,"

"You want the NFL, you want 'Survivor,' you want 'CSI,' you want David Letterman--you're going to have to pay us what you pay USA [Network] for, ... We have considered it one of the great injustices for many years that we never got paid for our signal."

"[But he was affected by it, if not in the way that Mr. Bays and Mr. Thomas anticipated.] The only thing that I said, scary to say, is that this is like the best type of show in this genre that I have seen since I saw the pilot of 'Friends' back in my days at Warner Brothers, ... You don't want to build up expectations. But I think this is the show NBC was looking for all those years to be the next one."

"There is absolutely nothing about this show relatable to my story, in fairness. This is about a twentysomething-year-old guy looking for the love of his life. One of the things I love about my job is the naiveté of people, thinking what things will affect me."

"We're very happy with the hand we are playing now. We are not looking for an acquisition of that size."

"The bar is very high. You're going to have to be very good to get on our network."

"Katie is simply one of the best in the business and represents a tremendous addition to CBS News."

"Mark's a great, great producer. He's a terrific talent, so we're glad we're in business with him. 'Survivor' had a lot to do with changing the whole profile of this network, so we're indebted to him."

"They say 40 percent of the revenue from network television is on Thursday night, so we're talking about hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions at stake, ... Not to be accused of being cruel here, but `Joey' is down 59 percent from `Friends' in [advertiser-coveted viewers ages] 18-to-49. . . . 59 percent. OK?"

"Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now."

"I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?"

"News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state."

"The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business."

"I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S."

"By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation."

"Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up."

"We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game."

"CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out."

"I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward."