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Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is.

- Michael McKean

Amazing, She, Most, Improviser

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

- Michael McKean

Again, Figure, Then, Profit

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

- Michael McKean

Think, I Think, Cases, Ridicule

On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the subway home from your play, you realize what you did wrong, and you go back the next night and you do it better, or you screw it up again in a different way. It's a different thing altogether.

- Michael McKean

Play, Too Late, Next, Screw

'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.

- Michael McKean

Big, Almost Everyone, Became, Flop

I was working with Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' We were about to make an entrance together - I was Hoover, he was LBJ - and he says to me, 'You should play the brother in 'Better Call Saul.' I was like 'What?' and it was time to go on. I'm doing the scene, and I can't think of what Hoover's supposed to say.

- Michael McKean

Play, Doing, About, Saul

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

- Michael McKean

Character, Gloves, Take, Goals

David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon money came in.

- Michael McKean

Students, Before, Tech, Carnegie

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

- Michael McKean

Think, Pretty, I Think, Pump

I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.

- Michael McKean

Good, Hire, Had, Hey

I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.

- Michael McKean

Comedy, Saved, Mr, Sketch Comedy

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

- Michael McKean

Over, Everybody, May, Credits

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

- Michael McKean

Think, Everyone, I Think, Mute

I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours.

- Michael McKean

Big, Will, Hours, Eater

I'm not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I've never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law.

- Michael McKean

Law, Learn, Kind, Lawyer

They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.

- Michael McKean

King, Like, Stories, Hundreds

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

- Michael McKean

Kind, Even, Benign

I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night.

- Michael McKean

Work, Night, Long Day, Intense

I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.

- Michael McKean

Love, Here, Some, Winters

I don't eat steak often, maybe once a month. But when I do, it really hits the spot. When you're done with your steak and your mashed potatoes and your green beans, you really know you've had dinner.

- Michael McKean

Green, Steak, Potatoes, Beans

I try and find a way to love every character I play.

- Michael McKean

Love, Character, Play, To Love

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

- Michael McKean

Drop, Loud, Set, Acoustic

I like working with Bob Odenkirk.

- Michael McKean

Working, Like, Bob

I watch my wife knitting, and it's like watching close-up magic to me.

- Michael McKean

Magic, Watch, Like, Close-Up

After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it.

- Michael McKean

Door, Play, Next, Glad

I'm not really a gourmet. I like to try new things.

- Michael McKean

New Things, New, Like, Gourmet

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

- Michael McKean

People, Some, Becoming, Avoid

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

- Michael McKean

Process, Think, Depends, Exactly The Same

To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me.

- Michael McKean

Work, Interesting, Else, Sequel

There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies.

- Michael McKean

Movies, Like, TV, One Way

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