Shows Quotes - Page 53

You can make the best show in the world, but if people don't actually turn it on and see it, they'll never know it's the best show.

I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that.

I showed sideboob. I don't need to show ass. You get one or the other. You don't get both.

So often, when you're playing the lead in your own show, it is all about you.

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

You've got each other's back. I think if everyone shows up with that attitude, then everybody has a great time, and I think the work is better as well.

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.

I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

The CW likes to hold on to its shows.

As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'

My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.

Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.

There's something inherently more appealing about the idea that you could reveal and tell stories about characters over the course of a TV season - 13 or 26 episodes, whatever it might be - than in the course of one two-hour movie. You can do so many more novelistic kinds of things on a TV show - with time, with gradual development of relationships, and so on - than you could possibly do in a movie. And that is very appealing.

I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.