Quotes by Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels

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.

Mother

Running

Uncles

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

Class

Play

Powerful

Everybody blows their first money.

Blow

Firsts

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.

Nerves

People

Risk

I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

Originals

Thinking

Voice

I can’t concern myself with how viewers feel.

Community

Consumerism

Strategy

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

Drink

Reason

Simple

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.

Healthy

Thinking

Way

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.

Now And Then

Thinking

Way

If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.

Looks

Persons

Rooms

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Knowing

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Lines

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Mother

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Nice

Now And Then

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Play

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Restless

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Sometimes

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Uncles

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Quotes by Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels

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.

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

Everybody blows their first money.

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.

I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

I can’t concern myself with how viewers feel.

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

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.

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.

If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.

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