Lorne Michaels famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I donâ€™t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.
-- Lorne Michaels

#Simple #Drink #Reason
If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room
-- Lorne Michaels

#Looks #Rooms #Persons
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
-- Lorne Michaels

#Wheels #Sometimes #Turns
I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
-- Lorne Michaels

#Community #Strategy #Consumerism
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

#People #Risk #Nerves
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

#Thinking #Healthy #Way
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

#Zoos #People #Laughing
Talented people are restless at their core.
-- Lorne Michaels

#People #Restless
You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.
-- Lorne Michaels

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

#People #Creative #Way
Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. Theyâ€™re going to find new injustices every day. Thatâ€™s what they do, and thatâ€™s what they are.
-- Lorne Michaels

#People #Injustice #Whole Life
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

#Nice #Focus #Important
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

#Writing #Creativity #Lines

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