Andy Richter Quotes

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

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

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

We’ve been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I’m sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that’s just, you’re trying to show off or something. That’s ridiculous.

Well, I refer to ‘Celebrity Jeopardy ‘ as the short-bus ‘Jeopardy,’ because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.

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

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

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.

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

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

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

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?’