Andy Richter Quotes

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.

If somebody's looking at pictures of naked people and you go, 'Oh I don't want to see that,' you're lying. Cause naked people are always interesting. Always. Whether they're beautiful, or naked or 500 pounds.

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

The basic equation that mystified me as a young man was looking at guys who could actually get girls. I was always amazed, because they never seemed to care. I was like, 'How do they do that?'

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

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.

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

I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.

My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

It's a very nice thing to have a baby.

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

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 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.

It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.

I'm not that professional.

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want ... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.