63 Quotes by Dan Schneider

By the time I was on TV, I was 19, but I played a kid, and they treated us like kids, so it's almost like I was a kid actor. Basically we were considered props who spoke.

Delegating is something that I don't do as much of as people wish I would.

Even the kids who seem to have a lot of freedom, their lives are pretty controlled. So what I try to do on my shows is to have kids come out on top. They're the smartest ones in the room. They're the ones in charge.

Casting is what I put at the top of the heap in importance to any show that I do.

Everywhere I go, kids are always, 'I want to be a star, I want to be on TV.'

As everyone who works for me knows, I almost never let the girls wear ponytails on my shows.

It's fun to intentionally write bad dialogue. It's not so fun when you do it, but didn't mean to.

If there is anything I've learned about kids today - and I'm not saying this is good or bad - it's that they all want to be stars.

We try to cast very real kids who have raw talent.