Berlanti Quotes

#1. Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

Katie Cassidy

#2. I've known Greg Berlanti from way back. I've done two shows with him, and both times, he was like, 'I've got something good for you,' and they did not disappoint.

Tom Cavanagh

#3. Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are fantastic producers and showrunners, and they lead a very, very positive, fun, creative environment to work in and to work with.

Geoff Johns

#4. Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

Greg Berlanti

#5. For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

Greg Berlanti

#6. Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

John O'Hara

#7. Especially with DVRs nowadays, people have their roster. More and more, it's not just, 'I'll watch what's on at 9 P.M.' They have their backlog of the shows they always watch, that they record every week, and it's a matter of, how do you get into that list?

Greg Berlanti

#8. If this is mytstical, what the heck is Advil going to do about it?

Kendare Blake

#9. I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

Greg Berlanti

#10. A book is sacred gift.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

Wael Ghonim

#12. You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.

Greg Berlanti

#13. I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

Jodie Foster

#14. I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

Richard Gough

#15. From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.

Alicia Silverstone

#16. How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.

Zig Ziglar

#17. It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we've always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can't or don't.

Greg Berlanti

#18. Its imposible to have real friendship when no one feels like they can accept help or even talk about themselves.

Veronica Roth

#19. Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don't know how you got from one to the next.

Franny Billingsley

#20. We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.

Greg Berlanti

#21. Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Pascal Bruckner

#22. There were only a couple of Marvel characters I read. I read 'Iron Man.' I have a lot of those. And this was the time they tried X-Factor out. I was never an X-Men person, but I was like, 'Let me check out X-Factor.' I was more of a DC guy in general.

Greg Berlanti

#23. By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream.

Robert Casey

#24. What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

Joanne Greenberg

#25. I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

Greg Berlanti

#26. What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture ... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.

Greg Berlanti

#27. Maya wrapped one leg around him, writhing against him as she threaded her fingers through his hair and held him to her, urging him on.
"Never stop touching me that way," Maya rasped.

Sara Humphreys