Andy Richter Quotes & Sayings

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff. — Andy Richter

I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever. — Andy Richter

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems! — Andy Richter

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. — Andy Richter

The basic equation that mystified me as a young man was looking at guys who could actually get girls. I was always amazed, because they never seemed to care. I was like, 'How do they do that?' — Andy Richter

One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure. — Andy Richter

It's a very nice thing to have a baby. — Andy Richter

If somebody's looking at pictures of naked people and you go, 'Oh I don't want to see that,' you're lying. Cause naked people are always interesting. Always. Whether they're beautiful, or naked or 500 pounds. — Andy Richter

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. — Andy Richter

I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything. — Andy Richter

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while. — Andy Richter

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess. — Andy Richter

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns. — Andy Richter

The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste. — Andy Richter

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them. — Andy Richter

Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York. — Andy Richter

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you. — Andy Richter

It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set. — Andy Richter

I have a wife and child, and I guess that would constitute a family, and sometimes I watch shows where the people aren't related. And I don't get nervous, get the sweats, and have to run out of the room. I mean, I can handle it. — Andy Richter

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude. — Andy Richter

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous. — Andy Richter

Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular. — Andy Richter

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will. — Andy Richter

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it. — Andy Richter

Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there. — Andy Richter

My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect. — Andy Richter

I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good. — Andy Richter

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want ... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too. — Andy Richter

I'm not that professional. — Andy Richter

The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well. — Andy Richter

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way. — Andy Richter

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom. — Andy Richter

I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within. — Andy Richter