Shows Quotes

• Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Men
  • History
  • Food

• I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I filled in for Papa Roach because we weren't doing much. Unwritten Law had a few more shows booked, but I got the call to fill in again at the end of the year. I was like, "I have to make myself available to these guys."

  

  Tony Palermo Papa Roach
  • Shows
  • Papa Roach
  • Unwritten Law

• Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Running

• Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Long
  • Should

• I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Family

• Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

  

  William Goldman
  • Three
  • Broadway
  • Playwright

• Going from playing a backroom of a bar to a show for 80,000 people...that's pretty wild.

  

  James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
  • People
  • Shows
  • Bars

• Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Special
  • Horrible
  • Entertaining

• I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • School
  • Reason
  • Tests

• You have to be a strong advocate of the shows you believe in. Sometimes those skills are very similar to agenting.

  

  Sue Naegle
  • Believe
  • Shows
  • Advocate

• Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Should

• Our fans come from a wide age group. At our shows, the kids are down in the front and the bald guys are in the back. They're all interested and curious.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Fans

• I've always seen in Westerns it described or it's shown very vaguely, but I wanted this - I want us to show what they're doing to them, so you can actually see it. And if you notice in the movie, you know, it goes even beyond just scalping and stuff.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Stuff

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

  

  Micky Dolenz The Monkees
  • Dance
  • Television
  • Shows

• If I keep striving to put on the best quality show based on the values I have, I don't have to think "oh we're crossing the line" because the line is built in. We follow that and do the best quality work we can.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Quality
  • Values
  • Lines

• When I do shows in the U.K., I see lots of people bring their kids to the show. Which is perfect because I am the world's most embarrassing mom.

  

  Claire Patricia Grogan Altered Images
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Business
  • Ifs

• I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Come
  • Pilots
  • Fleeting

• There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Shows
  • Separate
  • Static

• Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I think TV shows have usurped films!

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Think
  • Shows
  • TV Shows

• I hear a lot of bands complain about touring, and it does get to be a bit emotionally draining. But you have to put it into context: It's just a bunch of shows.

  

  Jim Adkins Jimmy Eat World
  • Shows
  • Bands
  • Draining

• The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Able

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