Shows Quotes - Page 60

Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you're considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it's not lowest common denominator.

When the entire country was watching one show there was a major discussion happening; is it possible for that to happen in a 1 million channel universe?

I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower.

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

I really wanted something that could make a statement about what we were doing and the life we were living in society, and the shows that push the boundaries, in those ways, are shows on cable, particularly networks like Showtime.

And sometimes the show can't go on.

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less money.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

The moon shows the truth of things.

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

I hate show business.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.

I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.

If something is built to show, it's build to grow.

The beautiful thing about faking a news show is the topicality is delayed.

This show is our own personal beliefs.

I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community.

I just love putting on a show. I get a tremendous sense of community out of it.

I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.