Quotes from Bonnie Hammer

I've not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.

E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.

The one thing that makes me nuts is if there's a problem or something that I don't know about.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

I'm a Brooklyn-born, Queens-raised, Manhattan-honed New York gal who entered college with only the vaguest ideas about what was coming next.

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.

Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its success. We looked at what was working and why it was working.

Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.

Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we're building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.

In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

If I say something, I mean it. If I promise something, best as I can, I'm going to follow through. If I say I have your back, I genuinely mean it.

As a working woman at the height of my career, I know age has only enhanced my professional and personal abilities. It has brought a sense of calm to the drive for success.

My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.

I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.

I wouldn't be comfy going toe to toe launching a new scripted show against broadcast.

We can sit back and be part of a hurting America, or we can channel our energy into something positive and do what we can to break the cycle of hate.

The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that when you really need to be loud, nobody listens.

You can't trademark the word 'sci-fi.'

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.