17 Quotes by Bill Lawrence

Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring.[points to self]

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

J.D.: Elliot, I'm thirty years old; I'm single, I'm homeless, and I'm pretty sure I just soiled myself.Elliot: Why don't you just move into my place?J.D.: Oh, great, then we'll be two losers under one roof.

To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.

My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me 'Hollywood,' and they assume I'm out at Hollywood parties, but I'm a domesticated guy with 3 kids.

I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you don't believe any of these characters care for each other. I used to fight with my friends who wrote on 'Seinfeld,' because they had such great pride in saying it was a show about nothing.