Shows Quotes - Page 48

I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.

If we don't like a radio or TV show, we turn it off. If the left don't like it, they try to shut it down.

This woman [Lena Dunham] makes up being raped or something at Oberlin College and then she did commercials for Hillary [Clinton] so she's a darling, she ran that TV show at HBO. HBO's a left-wing enclave. It's worshiped. And so she benefits from that.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity.

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer.

I've come to see that the way my life shows up is actually my purpose.

There are no plans to do any more live stuff. I really feel like there's enough live shows out there.

I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'

I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when Peep Show or the sketch show is on the telly or when were doing loads of interviews.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us, or what they show us in public.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

I'm very loving and supporting of my actors. I also expect them to show up prepared, happy to be there, and give their all as I do as an actor.