Bill Lawrence Quotes

#1. I love TV. I watch more TV than most people you know.

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#2. I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'

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#3. I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

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#4. My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me 'Hollywood,' and they assume I'm out at Hollywood parties, but I'm a domesticated guy with 3 kids.

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#5. J.D.: Elliot, I'm thirty years old; I'm single, I'm homeless, and I'm pretty sure I just soiled myself.
Elliot: Why don't you just move into my place?
J.D.: Oh, great, then we'll be two losers under one roof.

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#6. The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.

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#7. JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

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#8. I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.

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#9. To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.

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#10. Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring.

[points to self]

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#11. I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

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