Lorne Michaels Quotes

When I’m scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.

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.

I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

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.

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.

I can’t concern myself with how viewers feel.

Talented people are restless at their core.

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.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Everybody blows their first money.