55 Quotes by Andy Richter

The people on ‘Quintuplets’ were great, but I wasn’t a producer on that show, and it wasn’t exactly my taste.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you’re already hamstrung because you don’t have any freedom.

I think the people that are best at something, they don’t think about it much. That’s the whole key to being good at anything.

I’m not that professional.

I have a wife and child, and I guess that would constitute a family, and sometimes I watch shows where the people aren’t related. And I don’t get nervous, get the sweats, and have to run out of the room. I mean, I can handle it.

But I don’t read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can’t provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.

I never just sit down and see what’s on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

The thing that’s important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-“i” important, versus something that’s going to do well.