Alan Tudyk Quotes

I was so sad that 'Best Friends Forever' got cancelled. I thought it was a great show and NBC didn't give it a chance. I'm a big fan of the NBC comedies.

The economist rarely examines the presuppositions of the models with which he works. The economist simply commences with individuals as evaluating, choosing, and acting units. This starting point for analysis necessarily draws attention to the choice or decision environment for the individuals who must make selections from among the alternatives.

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

It's sad to see such institutions as 'All My Children' and some of the others, like 'Guiding Light,' which have been on the air for, like, 40 or 50 years. It's almost unfathomable to see that they actually aren't going to be on the air anymore. It's really sad.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

I didn't want to commit to a TV show.

Sometimes you have to give up one good in order to get another good.

So many times in television, you get cancelled arbitrarily as a result of your ratings in the off season, and you don't have an opportunity to really script your ending, which can leave it an unsatisfying situation for both participants and the audience.

Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.

Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.