Shows Quotes - Page 45

I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats: comedy sketches, talk shows, debate programs, art variety shows, quiz shows. These enable me to meet interesting people with interesting stories and to learn about interesting subjects, all of which I can reflect into film.

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60.

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.

I'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.

I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

For as long as I wanted to swim, I also wanted to do something on TV. My best friend in high school, we used to pretend like we had a TV show, and we had this dream of being the next 'Kate Allie.' Having that kind of a shtick.

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

Like we were saying, the fact that the relationships on the show are love-based, and in the sense that I wasn't aware of how special it was in contrast to a lot of the other TV shows that are on right now. It was our audience members that pointed out the love that you see in the show is special.

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the character.

I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. I'm looking forward to it.

...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

Most people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.