Steve Burns famous quotes

I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.
-- Steve Burns

#Congratulations #Looks #Three

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.
-- Steve Burns

#Kids #Who I Am #Years

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.
-- Steve Burns

#Children #Parent #Needs

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
-- Steve Burns

#Acting #Hobbies #Music Is My Life

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.
-- Steve Burns

#Children #Television #Fantasy

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.
-- Steve Burns

#Crazy #Crowds #Noise

Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.
-- Steve Burns

#School #Mean #Aspiration

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.
-- Steve Burns

#Brother #Guitar #Play

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.
-- Steve Burns

#Risk #Manage

The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action
-- Steve Burns

#Action #Slave #Traders

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.
-- Steve Burns

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.
-- Steve Burns

#Crazy #Home #Guitar

I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.
-- Steve Burns

#Smart #Blue #Lessons

Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.
-- Steve Burns

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.
-- Steve Burns

#Running #Real #Thinking

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.
-- Steve Burns

#Thinking #Done #Shooting

The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.
-- Steve Burns

#Children #Ideas #Watches

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
-- Steve Burns

#Mom #Running #New York

Acting on a blue screen is awful.
-- Steve Burns

#Blue #Acting #Awful

Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there.
-- Steve Burns

#Kids #Responsibility #Long

I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.
-- Steve Burns

#Children #Mean #Kids

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.
-- Steve Burns

#Thinking #People #Done

It eats at me. And if it eats at me, I'm going to make sure it eats at (my team).
-- Steve Burns

#Team