Quotes from Michael McKean

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

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

I like working with Bob Odenkirk.

People seem to think if you're successful, then you have some secret. The fact is, you've just managed to work your life a certain way.

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.

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

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.

My wife makes an amazing chili.

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

'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.

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.

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

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.

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

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

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.

Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.

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