Show Quotes

• There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• Government is not show business.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Business
  • Government
  • Show

• Friend, we're traveling together. Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken. I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out a grain that's way too big.

  

  Rumi
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Beauty

• I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Feeling
  • Ability
  • Show

• I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.

  

  Adam Schein
  • Show
  • Talking
  • Listeners

• There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Mercy
  • Bathroom
  • Jack Bauer

• We don't really interact with them because we're usually on different stages. You're aware that The Killers are at the show, but we try not to worry about it. We were nominated for Best International Video.

  

  Sam Endicott The Bravery
  • Stages
  • Interact
  • The Killers

• But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Independent
  • Belief
  • Consideration

• I hate it when I see people texting at a show. And talking to each other. They're at a performance; they should respect the performer.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • People
  • Performance
  • Performer

• You have an idea in your mind of how the first show will be. Since I was 15 years old in front of the mirror saying, "If I was in Priest, this is what I would do." But in truth, I don't remember any of it.

  

  Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
  • Remember
  • Idea
  • First

• I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Say
  • Show
  • Often

• We don't ever show up trying to plan who we play.

  

  Ashlyn Harris
  • Play
  • Show
  • Plan

• Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. Win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it only means you are a slob.

  

  Crash Davis
  • Win
  • Shoes
  • Shower

• I think Rachel Maddow has done a brilliant job in becoming more and more independent. And I think she does a fantastic progressive show, and she did it by accruing power, by getting better and better ratings.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Progressive
  • Ratings
  • Rachel Maddow

• The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • People
  • Business
  • Happy

• We did a week with Nirvana in the fall of 1993. About halfway through our Halloween show, an overexcited fan bopped Kurt on the noggin with a tennis shoe. Kurt grabbed the offending article and looked into the audience for the culprit. Unable to find him, Kurt dropped the shoe onto the stage, unzipped his fly, and mid-song, filled the shoe with piss.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Fan
  • Nirvana
  • Shoe

• I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Show
  • Tennessee
  • Marlon Brando

• There is a definite difference between live shows and the recordings. The recordings are for all time, hopefully, so you do want to bring across layers of subtlety. But the live show is this primal experience that everybody's having at the same time, that the recording can at best try to imitate or duplicate.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Layers
  • Duplicate
  • Recordings

• 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

• I'd say all mirrors are magical, or can be. They show you yourself after all. Really seeing yourself, though, that's the hard part.

  

  Adam Gidwitz
  • Yourself
  • Show
  • Mirrors

• The show [ Too Much Tuna] changed a lot, actually, which is risky when you get positive critical feedback.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • Positive
  • Feedback
  • Risky

• I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Past
  • Spring
  • Woodstock

• I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.

  

  Sutton Foster
  • Show
  • Inside
  • Works

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