Every single television product has the ambition to chase ratings, every one of them. Many have other ambitions, for many, ratings are not #1. But my experience on TV, and on the entertainment side, has been entirely ratings-based. When I look at TV I look at ratings. And I never second guess ratings. Never. Lawrence O'Donnell Read Quote
The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there’s no space for procrastination. Lawrence O'Donnell Read Quote
I have no broadcasting training. No one’s ever said to me, ‘This is how you read a Teleprompter.’ They just pointed to it and said, ‘It’s over there.’ Lawrence O'Donnell Read Quote
Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them. Lawrence O'Donnell Read Quote
Practically, every defense lawyer knows that the jury desperately wants to hear from the defendant and that the only reason not to put him on the stand is that he is soooo guilty that every answer he gives after his name will eradicate any shred of reasonable doubt. Lawrence O'Donnell Read Quote
At ‘The West Wing,’ I cast newscasters, and when you put out a casting call for actors, half of the people who come in are real local L.A. newscasters. Each time, I ended up hiring one of them, because they’re better at it. Big surprise! A newscaster is better at playing a newscaster than an actor is. Lawrence O'Donnell Read Quote
To expose a first draft to anyone’s ears other than your own is indecent. Lawrence O'Donnell Read Quote
Bill O’Reilly is a socialist. He is in favor of Medicare, he is in favor of Social Security. Those are socialist programs. Lawrence O'Donnell Read Quote
Anything anyone wants to say about me is fair. There’s not a single thing that any viewer has ever said about anything I do on television that has bothered me in the least. And every single person has the right to hate whoever they want to hate on television, whether it be singers, actors, pundits. That’s the deal. Lawrence O'Donnell Read Quote
