Shows Quotes - Page 23

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

If there is one rule for dressing, for fashion, it’s pretty much the same rule as for everything else in life: Don’t go against yourself, don’t go against your own nature. It’s only going to show.

The mirror can lie. Doesn't show you what's inside. And it, it can tell you you're full of life. It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.

My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

I was watching Batman, the TV show, on TV Land, on the cable. And Robin said to Batman, Golly, Batman! Why is the Joker so evil!? And Batman said, Careful, Robin. The criminal mind sees the world through a prism the solid citizen dare not peer through. Batman has a more nuanced worldview than the president.

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along - this is about me now - this is my show.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.