Show Quotes
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My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that's onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.
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In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
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I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then.
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American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.
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You don’t go to a show because you think someone in the band is hot.
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No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
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You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.
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In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.
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We tend to watch a whole show once in a while and then see the beginning of most of the shows. It’s kind of insane the way they start the show, almost at full throttle. And you’re thinking, “How do they get through the rest of the show?”. But it does actually go further up from there, which is crazy.
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But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
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I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.
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Everyone's Taking Control Of Me Seems That The World's Got A Role For Me I'm So Confused Will You Show To Me You'll Be There For Me And Care Enough To Bear Me...
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Life is not for show, but for real.
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A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.
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Our fans are really passionate and really protective of the characters on the show. That's just a testament to them, that kind of reaction.
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It's like I tell people at my stand-up shows: by making me a bitch, you have given me my freedom, the freedom to say and do things I couldn't do if I was "a nice girl" with some sort of stupid, goody-two-shoes image to keep up. Things that require courage. Things that require balls. Things that need to be done. By making me a bitch, you have freed me from the trite, sexist, bourgeois prison of "likeability." Any idiot can be liked. It takes talent to scare the crap out of people.
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I don't do the same show twice. I've never done a show word for word.
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It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must also show them that we do so.
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It's just as important to show the hard things in the world as it is to show the beautiful ones. Even in the midst of horrible things, there are little bits of wonder, and all of it's true.
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I had tried to teach her that nobody should be able to see when you were scared. That nobody should be able to tell when you were uncertain. That you shouldn't show it when you loved someone. And that you smiled with particular affection at someone you hated.
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I'm kind of a feel player. I'll stretch out before a show a bit and do some playing, but that's about it. I'm not one of these 10-hour-a-day playing guys.
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As you continue to work on a show, if I still feel inspired, and I feel they are making exciting choices, then our enthusiasm remains. This is not a perfect science. It's an evolutionary process.
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I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for many years.
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TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you're lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.
