The Morning Show Quotes (Season 3)

You think this is gonna be easy, don’t you? You green-light a couple shows, you come to a couple premieres, and then you f*** back off to your little desert lair. UBA is not a hobby. You’re not making sourdough starter in a mason jar. It’s bankers breathing down your neck. It’s ad boys pulling a hundred million in Viagra ads from your NFL playoff game because Pfizer just lost the patent for hard-ons. And when the Wall Street vultures start circling, and they will, you will need my counsel.[to Paul]

You already stepped over a few bodies to get here. I think the only difference between us and them is that we let the ghosts torment us. They don’t.[to Stella]

Traders are worse than middle schoolers with a crush. They can’t keep a secret to save their lives.

There were sharks in that ocean before there were rings around Saturn. Humans, we’re just a blip. Showed up yesterday, almost certainly be gone tomorrow. All we have is today. My money is on them.[to Paul]

There are only so many jobs at the top. White men don’t give them up willingly.

The beautiful thing about the human body is its capacity for survival. You can lose 40% of your blood. Still keep going.[to Stella]

People don’t know what they want until we puree it, spoon it up and make airplane sounds.[to Alex]

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Media is politics by another name.

It’s the beautiful thing about bulls***. It can’t be outsourced.

Every time that you start to speak, things feel like they’re getting worse. That’s a special gift.

Alex Levy is Lazarus, and that makes me Jesus. Except I’m in more houses seven days a week.[to Paul]