A biography for Dan Schneiderhasn’t been written yet.
“If there is anything I've learned about kids today - and I'm not saying this is good or bad - it's that they all want to be stars.”
“I think my shows can draw an audience of 12 million because I ask, 'What can make a 7-year-old, a 17-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 77-year-old laugh?'”
“I liked television in the old days. I liked that everybody knew every episode of 'The Brady Bunch,' everybody knew every episode of 'Cheers.'”
“Right when I moved to L.A., I started writing. I wrote some screenplay. I'm sure it's terrible. But I wrote a screenplay by myself. When I first moved to L.A., I had no friends. I didn't know anybody. I just sat in a little studio apartment, and I wrote a screenplay.”
“I try to make a great sitcom that would make my heroes proud of me.”
“On my Nickelodeon shows - 'Victorious' is my seventh show for the channel - there's this same distinct comedic voice that goes throughout. I'm not saying it's brilliant, but it works and kids think it's funny.”
“What I loved about TV when I was a kid was that no matter where you came from or who you were - black, white, rich or poor - you knew the same shows. It was a common thing in our culture.”
“Jerry Trainor is one of the funniest people on the planet.”
“I'm never going to write fart jokes, because I feel like I have a responsibility to the audience to give them good stuff. I should be able to come up with something funnier than any third-grade boy could think of.”
“Kids spend seven hours a day in school, and they have their homework at night. I'm not there to moralize or to teach them right from wrong. We're there to provide something that is really fun, that's a diversion.”
“With people all the way from 17 to 2... 'iCarly' often is the No. 1 show, not just on cable but all of television.”
“Having been on the other side of the camera gives me such perspective on what I'm doing.”
“My dad would have me watch the shows that he liked. I watched 'I Love Lucy.' I watched 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.' I watched 'M*A*S*H' and 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Bob Newhart' and 'Taxi' and 'Cheers.'”
“Really, I'm just a big kid myself.”
“My shows are meant to be entertaining, not educational.”
“I'm very willing to defend creative things that I believe in.”
“My TV comedy idols are the Charles brothers, who did 'Cheers;' Larry Gelbart, who did 'MASH;' and Larry David, who did 'Seinfeld.' When I was 6 or 7-years-old, I'd watch 'Saturday Night Live' and guys like John Belushi and Dan Akroyd became my on-screen heroes.”
“We work hard to make a good show and it's exciting to be recognized by a third party.”
“It's a huge high to be able to earn a nice living doing the thing I love most - making comedy.”
“Nobody gives a damn that I was in 'Head Of The Class,' but when they know I was Ricky in 'Better Off Dead,' they're like 'Holy crap, man! You were Ricky.' They go crazy.”