Quotes by Lorne Michaels - Page 1

All saints are selfish.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Selfish
Saints
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Yeah, I love Los Angeles.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Los Angeles
Yeah
Angeles
Los
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Everybody blows their first money.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Blow
Firsts
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You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.
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Talented people are restless at their core.
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Core
People
Restless
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I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
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Community
Consumerism
Strategy
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All babies are ugly unless they're your baby.
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Babies
Unless
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Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?
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Pocket
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Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Sometimes
Turns
Wheels
Slowly
Wheel
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I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Bee
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One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Getting Older
Knowing
Worry
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I am always looking for what I think are original voices.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Originals
Thinking
Voice
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There's nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Sells
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I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Drink
Reason
Simple
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The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.
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Creative
People
Way
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When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Air
Dresses
People
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Looks
Persons
Rooms
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Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Class
Play
Powerful
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'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Challenged
Whoever
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One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Being Busy
Busy
Focus
Important
Nice
Nice Things
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Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.
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Comedy
Evening
Pope
Picture
Breaks
Heading
Tearing
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There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.
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Bored
Uncomfortable
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I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of other television shows.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Los Angeles
Television Shows
Angeles
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I'm incredibly proud of the show 'Portlandia' that I do, but it's designed for an audience that just wants that and loves that.
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Designed
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People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
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Zoos
Intense
Laughing
People
Scary
Like
Because
Go
Bear
Laugh
Makes
Monkey
Zoo
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If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that's not good.
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Ears
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To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Boundaries
Creativity
Lines
Problem
Sonnet
Writing
Within
Write
Container
Gonna
Solving
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If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.
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Now And Then
Thinking
Way
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Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.
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Injustice
People
Whole Life
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A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.
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Running
Uncles
Home
Mother
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Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.
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Nerves
People
Risk
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I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
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Authority
Comedy
Healthy
Hostility
Polite
Questioning
Regard
Reverence
Thinking
Way
Canadians
Challenged
Ways
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I'm always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing - people laugh, or they don't laugh. It's involuntary. I'm not saying it can't be scrutinized, it's just that they take the enjoyment out of it.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Enjoyment
Fearful
Involuntary
Academics
Always People Laugh
Always People Comedy
People Laugh Comedy
Scrutinized
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When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Meaningful
Pope
Picture
Coming
Drop
Held
Obviously
Orphans
Pin
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I grew up in a time where on things like 'The Red Skeleton Show' or even to a certain extent on 'The Carol Burnett Show,' people wrote in the breakouts or ad-libs. They were scripted to look spontaneous. So I always had a dislike of that kind of thing.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Dislike
Spontaneous
Time Always Look
Time Look People
Time Always Where
Burnett
Carol
Carol Burnett
Certain Extent
Extent
Scripted
Show People
Skeleton
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The only show I ever really wanted to do was 'SNL.' It was some sort of merging of my talent and my metabolism. It suited who I am and what I do really well, though whatever I was thinking it was, it kept mutating and growing. At first, I didn't even know that the cast would be the thing everybody talked about. We thought it would be the hosts.
Lorne Michaels / Television Producer
Merging
Metabolism
Snl
Hosts
Suited
Talked
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