64 Quotes by Lorne Michaels

The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

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.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

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.

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

Look, she really screwed up and it had a profound effect on her career. To me, it seemed it wasn't fair for someone that young to be that severely beaten up. So we're letting her come back.