Lorne Michaels Quotes & Sayings

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. — Lorne Michaels

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. — Lorne Michaels

The show doesn't go on because it's ready; it goes on because it's 11:30. — Lorne Michaels

When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people. — Lorne Michaels

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel. — Lorne Michaels

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

It's better when they laugh, isn't it? — 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. — Lorne Michaels

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. — Lorne Michaels

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here? — Lorne Michaels

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes. — Lorne Michaels

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

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins, — Lorne Michaels

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. — Lorne Michaels

Talented people are restless at their core. — Lorne Michaels

Yeah, I love Los Angeles. — Lorne Michaels

Everybody blows their first money. — Lorne Michaels

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. — Lorne Michaels

I don't tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink. — Lorne Michaels

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

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry. — Lorne Michaels

I am always looking for what I think are original voices. — Lorne Michaels

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns. — Lorne Michaels