Amy Sherman-Palladino famous quotes

03-28-2025

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Christmas #People #Car
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Mother #Class #Years
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Jobs #Writing #Character
Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#People #Trying #Twists
I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Sadness #Dark #Attention
I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Thinking #Paper #Way
If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Kindness #Nice #Generosity
The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Girl #Air #Voice
You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Two #Voice #People
I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Growing Up #Thinking #Feelings
The dance world was a big part of my growing up.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Growing Up #World #Growing
No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Rooms #Sweatpants
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Thinking #Television #Mundane
Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Girl #Silly #Mind
To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Crazy #Fighting #Creative
With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Running #People #Judging
I can't wait to sit with these unbelievable broads and relive a time where sleep did not exist, where stress and coffee were mama's little helpers, and where we all dove into the deep end together to make something weird and very, very cool.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Stress #Coffee #Sleep
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Writing #Actors #Want
Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Pilots #Way #Madly In Love
I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Car #Parent #Hello
I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Drama #Style #Pace
I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Girl #Mistake #Thinking
These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Hair #Wind #Insane

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