Show Quotes

• We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Up
  • Inadvertently
  • Mathews

• And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.

  

  Mike McCready Pearl Jam
  • Show
  • Comfortable
  • Onstage

• I'm in the fourth row, signing autographs at your show.

  

  Eminem
  • Show
  • Autographs
  • Signing

• I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Wish
  • Doing
  • Show

• I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Time
  • Show
  • Elvis Presley

• Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Actor
  • Show
  • Jason Alexander

• Yeah, I was in the show. I was in the show for 21 days once - the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.

  

  Crash Davis
  • Great
  • Carries
  • Was

• And it wasn't until I came out here to California when my brother got a role on the show Alice, that I also began to go on auditions for acting roles.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • California
  • Role
  • Alice

• Don’t waste your time on sweet formalities. Just show me your originality.

  

  Carly Pearce
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Originality

• You gotta show me how show me how.

  

  Paul Colman Newsboys
  • Show
  • How

• The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Broken
  • Bible
  • Divorce

• Can we do something Monday night and call it PrimeTime ? Yes. Will it be this show? No.

  

  Chris Berman
  • Show
  • Monday
  • PrimeTime

• I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Up
  • Die
  • Gold

• I'm not sure if the audience can smell tuna but the special guest each show definitely can.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • Show
  • Audiences
  • Guest

• Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • May
  • Eyes
  • Cards

• It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.

  

  Eliot Pattison
  • Mistake
  • Courage
  • Show

• Myrnin," she said. "He didn't show up at the rendezvous." "And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Crazy

• One of the big things right now is the DJ is a spectacle, isn't it? You have the enormous light show, smoke, explosions, and fire. There's a dude with a USB stick playing somewhere in there, but the spectacle is created out of lights and lasers and whatever. The original idea of DJing - being a shadowy figure in the corner while people were having a party - is not the one that makes money and is massively popular internationally.

  

  Joe Goddard The 2 Bears
  • Fire
  • Smoke
  • Explosions

• You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Success
  • Victim
  • Experimentation

• When we are out on the road, running up and down the road playing shows, you have to be not only a member of a band but, especially with Lynyrd Skynyrd, you have to be a part of the Skynyrd nation. You have to be a part of the family.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Road
  • Member
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you've written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that's actually real.

  

  John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
  • Real
  • Process
  • Show

• Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

  

  Socrates
  • Flattery
  • Painted
  • Armor

• People really do identify with the characters they see on the show, but these days, social media allows you to interact with fans in a really interesting way. On my Twitter account, I'm Chris Carmack, not Will Lexington. I interact with fans and joke with them. I'll post pictures from my life. I think that helps drop the curtain of a character.

  

  Chris Carmack
  • People
  • Fans
  • Identify

• I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

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