Andrew Davies Quotes

I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

Unless I really make an effort, I quite enjoy looking a bit off and something looking a bit wrong. That's how I feel most comfortable. If anything, it's just because I'm, like, very scatty and not very good at putting stuff together.

When I became a producer, I told myself I will finally be able to bring my dog to work.

I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

There's obviously instances where I perceive sexism in my job. ... I think that the sort of sexism that I see has been one that's a little bit like a gentler form of sexism, but still a little bit debilitating, which is that when, as a producer and a writer, whether it was at The Office or [at The Mindy Project], if I make a decision, it'll still seem like it's up for debate.

He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.

Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.

I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.

Bouncing in hoppy little circles like a demented Goth bunny.

Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

People run away, pull their hair, go off in different directions, nodding their heads and going, "Oh, God." I am slightly disheveled, I think. I'm really pleased that I am, because otherwise I could be in a really, really dull and boring place now, as a musician, at least.

I think that there's a natural attraction to enigmatic characters, people that have decided to make a decision in their lives to live differently than everyone else. That's a very attractive quality that also happens to be good for filmmaking, people that have their own point of view and aren't looking at things the same way as everyone else.