Lorne Michaels Quotes

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

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• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

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• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

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• It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

  

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• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

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• I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.

  

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• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

  

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• As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

  

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• I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

  

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• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

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• You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

  

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• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

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• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
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• It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

  

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• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  

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• I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

  

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• Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

  

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• At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.

  

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• I think it's a great thing to hear the author reading. I've listened to CDs of Cheever and Updike reading their stories and Hemingway. To hear what their voices were like is amazing. Whether they're reading well or not, it's great to listen to the intonation and the beat of the guy who wrote the story.

  

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• Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

  

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• With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

  

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• In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

  

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• 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
  • Comedy
  • Healthy