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The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people that will have you think that there are two kinds of people in this world, and there are the 'good; people. There is no good, there is no evil, there is just a war going on between the people that want you to think there's a war going on and the people that know there doesn't have to be one.

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.