Steve Burns quotes

Music is my life -- acting's just a hobby. (Steve Burns)

I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.

Steve Burns

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

Steve Burns

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

Steve Burns

I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work.

Steve Burns

I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.'

Steve Burns

The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.

Steve Burns

Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

Steve Burns

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

Steve Burns

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

Steve Burns

I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around. (Steve Burns)

Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.

Steve Burns

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.

Steve Burns

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

Steve Burns

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

Steve Burns

Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there.

Steve Burns

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.

Steve Burns

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.

Steve Burns

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

Steve Burns

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

Steve Burns

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: October 9, 1973
Quotes count: 20
Wikipedia: Steve Burns

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