Lorne 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

I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something. — Michaela Watkins

To paraphrase Lorne Michaels (my countryman), it's the kind of place where they award Miss Canada to the runner-up, because the prettiest already gets to be prettiest. — David Rakoff

I really didn't want to leave the show, but I got a chance to do a movie, which meant I would have had to miss two shows, and at the time Lorne had a policy where you can't miss shows, so I left. — Jon Lovitz

Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny. — Bill Hader

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

I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail. — Fred Armisen

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

But Lorne is also an old-school producer, and somewhere deep down I think he knew that if he cast me in the part "by popular demand," even if I sucked, it might be a good rating. A good rating is a good rating, even if people tune in just to be mad about how much it sucked. — Tina Fey

I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens. — Vanessa Bayer

During the writers' strike in 2007, we put on our own SNL episode there with old sketches. Michael Cera hosted, our musical guest was Yo La Tengo, and we gave Lorne a birthday cake as he sat in the audience. — Amy Poehler

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts. — Steve Cropper

People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment.
The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really enjoy anything very much because your mind is always pulling you on to the next desire and the next after that. When you let go of desire, then you're free to enjoy whatever is right in front of you. — Lorne Ladner

There are even more galvanizing aspects to the Canadian psyche than mere reticence. There is the collective fear, at least when I was growing up, of becoming too big for our britches. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels (my countryman), it's the kind of place where they award Miss Canada to the runner-up, because the prettiest already gets to be the prettiest. Rather than demanding liberty or, failing that, death, we are a country forever giving up our seats to the elderly, all the while thanking one another for not smoking. — David Rakoff

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

In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively. — Taran Killam

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

If you're looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue — Tina Fey

I can't help feeling as if this is my last chance, Evan said. He was sitting opposite Dr. Lorne, a psychiatrist at the Havilland Recovery Cabin in north western New Jersey. It was the next to the last day of his fourth pass through a twenty-eight day program for sex and alcohol addiction. The sex addiction was questionable; the alcohol was not. — Ryan Field

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

'Saturday Night Live' was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting. — Howard Shore

At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host. — Bill Hader

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

They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me. — Tracy Morgan

Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and I promise I will relent. But there is no common sense at all in the prohibition of walking. — Lorne Rubenstein

Almost every job I have ever gotten was due to someone knowing my work or seeing me in something else. I was in UCB and Andy Richter suggested I do stuff for Conan. Being on Conan helped me land a part in Deuce Bigalow. My UCB television show and friends helped me get an audition for SNL; my SNL connections resulted in Parks and Recreation. See, years and years of hard work and little bits of progress isn't nearly as entertaining as imagining me telling a joke in a Boston food court when suddenly Lorne Michaels walks up and says, I must have you for a little show I do. — Amy Poehler

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

When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true. — Willard Scott

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune. — Anne Beatts

I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me. — Jenny Slate

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

I watched Master Class with Lorne Michaels on OWN. How can somebody produce a sketch show and talk for an hour and not say something even slightly amusing, or sarcastic, or ironic, or interesting, or informative? 'My mission as a producer is to encourage creativity.' Mission accomplished. — Andy Kindler

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

Apparently, that morning both Lorne's doorman and Robert De Niro had stopped him to say how uncanny the resemblance was. Did we dare disappoint Frank the Doorman and Robert De Niro? — Tina Fey

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

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

Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps - the shop for paper, printing, and postage - went on as they had before. — Anne Bishop

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

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it. — Colin Quinn

What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter. — Rachel Sklar

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

Everybody blows their first money. — Lorne Michaels

Yeah, I love Los Angeles. — Lorne Michaels

Talented people are restless at their core. — Lorne Michaels

Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to driving a long distance rather than flying. While driving, we see the country instead of racing over it. There's a human scale that flying cannot offer. — Lorne Rubenstein

Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff. — Tina Fey

Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character. — Martin Freeman

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