“Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.” KindDifferentShowsRealityFiveTelevisionEpisodesSheetsReality Television Author:Diane Lane
“I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.” EndsShowsPartyFiveEpisodesGreat Experiences Author:Matthew Fox
“The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.” PeopleShowsTogetherFormNightFivePlayerSixTheaterTablesDinnerEvery NightEnsembleDinner Table Author:Michael J. Fox
“I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.” IfsShowsFiveComedyGenerationsFemaleAskingComedianMailFestivalsPitchingAmyStand Up Comedian Author:Wendy Liebman
“I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.” ThinkingLongShowsLastsFiveConnected Author:James MacArthur
“Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years.” KnowsYearsFactsShowsBigsCoursesHousePresidentWhiteFiveDinnerFive YearsTonightWhite HouseDo You KnowPresident ObamaWeekend Author:David Letterman
“I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won't be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveShowsInterestingCommonSecretFiveImpossibleWeakWoundsProtectedPatheticLoving You Author:Charlie Kaufman
“That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.” WorldShowsProblemForgetPayFiveWonderfulShow BusinessBucksAnother WorldEscapism Author:Michael Jackson
“I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.” YearsWellsChildrenShowsRunningHurtKnownFivePaintingDaughterTreatsActressesOpeningImpulseFive YearsInsultComplimentSwimmingPoolImpressedWell KnownDivingFive Year OldsSwimming Pool Author:James Nares
“People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsDoeShowsActorsStarsFiveFourCostNormalEatingHundredDollarsDinnerRestaurantsExpensiveFiftyHotelRelativeTicketsSeventiesBroadwaySpectators Author:Ferran Adria
“We have first lady Michelle Obama on the show tonight. As you'd expect, security's been pretty tight. On my way in I got five pat-downs, and that was just from Joe Biden.” WayFirstsShowsFiveSecurityMy WayTonightFirst LadyBiden Author:Jimmy Fallon
“My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.” PlayShowsSidesFiveBrotherDadMusicianInstrumentsMy DadMy BrotherGrandmotherMy GrandmotherShow BusinessCousinMy CousinPuerto RicoMarioRico Author:Irene Cara
“But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.” IfsShowsHappensMovingResultsFiveFourMonthsShowtime Author:Will Arnett
“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.” PeopleIfsWantMomentsShowsCertainRecordsFiveDesignTasteMassPicksSellsShoesTrackIntuitionHonestlyFactorsChiefsCombinationDesignerDependentPairsLinksShow MeMoments In TimePair Of ShoesTrack Record Author:Monita Rajpal
“I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer's house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.” YearsFirstsTwoShowsHouseFiveWeekMinutesTelevisionCostStuckLocalsEnjoyedMealsFive YearsGasTwo YearsViewersGroceries Author:Rachael Ray
“As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.” MadeStillsShowsFacesAsksGrowsBreakMillionsFiveSawsNegativeOriginalsDollarsStudiosHorribleNervousAsk MeBudgetsProphetMaryStaffGrossDoomShakingBankersMillion DollarsUnfinishedConcededBreak EvenSad Face Author:Walt Disney
“Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.” YearsShowsMightActorsFiveFourTelevisionSeriousMonthsAmountSixSix MonthsTelevision ShowsAnthology Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.” YearsFirstsShowsAgeTodayYoungNightFiveComedyWeekStartingClubsComedianCoincidenceComedy ClubsAge Of 20 Author:Emo Philips
“I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.” YearsLittlesIdeasShowsWantedHellFiveDrawingBrandsComicDevelopingFive YearsFoxesCartoonBrooksBrand NewComic Strips Author:Matt Groening
“I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.” WritingShowsUsedNamesVoiceFiveMagicTablesSevenScriptsDollsPuppetsOlder SisterMagic ShowVentriloquismPuppet ShowsSchoolmates Author:David Wenham
“I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kids theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasnt a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.” FirstsMadeShowsKidsCompanyFiveKingsTheaterChocolateFactoriesCharlieCharlie And The Chocolate Factory Author:Max Schneider
“I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.” YearsHas BeensShowsForceFiveAirSpecialHugeAmountLondonFive YearsTroopsAir Force Author:Larry Hagman
“When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show." You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool."” KnowsYearsSaidDoneShowsFiveSonFive YearsOver YouMy SonYellingFive Year OldsGrandsonGranddaddy Author:David McCallum
“If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.” IfsI CanShowsBigsGirlFunFiveMinutesBuildingHaving FunFive MinutesNestsNurturingBig GirlMr Big Author:Michael Patrick King
“I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.” KnowsTryingMindShowsAgeSexKnow HowFiveWeekCrazyPeriodsDrinkSickAidsPerformingMeatRestaurantsVegetarianStarvingFast FoodAbstinenceHaving SexEyeballsFast Food Restaurants Author:Michael Stipe
“When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.” FactsShowsHappensFiveJokesChalkBad Experiences Author:Jeff Dunham
“If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.” IfsMenWantNeedsYearsWellsLooksKindMeanReasonShowsMightPastOrderSpaceFiveFitLetting GoClothesYears AgoDatingFive YearsSomething NewClosetsWant SomethingNew ClothesPast Relationship Author:Jack Canfield
“While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.” IfsWritingWellsDoeIdeasShowsProcessFiveMysticalStewards Author:John Darnielle
“As a kid, I would do all of the plays at my school, and I was notorious for being in five numbers in one show. I'd go onstage, run backstage for a wardrobe change, and then go back out onstage. I'm always trying to do more than I should but when I got my lucky break (or whatever it's called), I was prepared because I studied and worked really hard for it.” ShouldTryingHardPlayShowsRunningKidsSchoolNumbersBreakFiveLuckyPreparedAlways TryingWardrobeNotoriousLucky Breaks Author:Chrissie Fit
“Normally if I go to one of these things I'm in and out in five minutes, but at Pride of Britain I stay to the end. It's a fantastic show. But it's incredibly hard on the night when you meet all the kids and hear their stories. They do get to you.” IfsEndsHardStoriesShowsKidsNightFiveMinutesPrideFantasticBritainFive Minutes Author:Simon Cowell
“You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.” ShowsSportsFiveTeamNew YorkTwentiesYankeesTwenty FiveNew York Yankees Author:Bill Lee
“I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have been really, really great comedians. Because they unconsciously or subconsciously stifled their wild impulses, and were thinking about the five clean minutes for The Tonight Show, or the 20-minute sitcom pitch as a stand-up act.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensShowsFiveMinutesCleanGladErasImpulseComedianTonightAffectedReally GreatCould Have BeenSitcom Author:Patton Oswalt
“I keep my kids out of the whole business entirely. Allegra and Lucas are five and six and I'm not interested in them doing any acting at all. I don't want my kids in show business. I keep them as far away from my work as possible.” WantWholeShowsKidsActingFiveSixFar AwayNot InterestedShow Business Author:John Leguizamo
“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."” KnowsMayTwoDoneShowsFiveTvsSixSentencesFeaturesTv Shows Author:John Sayles
“Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence. Love is the basis for all the other values. Doctors can infuse courage in patients by the love they show towards the patients. If doctors carry out their duties with love they will be crowned with success.” IfsShouldHumansShowsValuesLove IsFiveViolenceDutyDoctorsImportanceBasesPatientRighteousnessRecogniseNon ViolenceHuman ValuesPeace Love Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“We don't believe in limiting access to our product. We believe that making our ticket sales available on as many sites as possible is good for the studios and good for us. We have on any given day 25,000 show starts - five show times at 5,000 screens. We have 1M seats more or less in our circuit. So I have 25M sales opportunities every single day. Why would I want to limit access?” WantBelieveShowsOpportunityGivenFiveProductsLimitsDon't BelieveStudiosAvailableScreensAccessSeatsTicketsSiteCircuits Author:Gerry Lopez
“I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.” FirstsPersonsWholeShowsSleepMorningFiveClockParagraph Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.” GivingI CanMomentsShowsChanceFiveWifeWonderfulBlockChickensRetiringTerrificAntidoteDetectivesFrostJason Author:John Nettles
“To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.” WayWritingLittlesRealHardCharacterShowsHoursSpaceHalfEconomyFiveMinutesPagesTwentiesSeriesThirtyFortyPilotsIntroducingEstatesPremisesHalf Hours Author:Jonathan M. Goldstein
“People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I've done so many things and am very appreciative. But, the one thing I've never done and wanted to do was to be a regular on a TV show, where you get 22 weeks of the year to develop and play a character. I've done arcs of five or eight episodes on shows, but I'd like to have a character that's rich enough and deep enough to want to explore and live with for a few years. Playing the same character, but doing different scenes seems very exciting to me.” PeopleWantYearsDifferentDoneEnoughPlayCharacterShowsSeemsWantedCareersRichFiveOne ThingWeekTvsSceneExcitingEightEpisodesTv ShowsArcsAppreciative Author:Jim Piddock
“Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.” WantYearsWellsPersonsShowsCan DoSpaceAttentionClassStudyFiveStudentsYears AgoSacredCirclesPay AttentionFive YearsProfessorsClassroomWorkplaceDistractedLaptopsNanniesSacred Space Author:Judy Woodruff
“Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.” KnowsPersonsShowsFiveMinutesBehaviorFive MinutesAlgorithmsNetflixTime Of Day Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“The great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances that have happened in the past in other episodes to show that this kind of violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has ramifications. It has repercussions. Whether it's a week from now or five years from now, you know it will play out. Nothing is ever tied up into a perfect knot.” KnowsYearsKindPlayShowsHappensPastPerfectFiveViolenceHappenedWeekEventsSonCircumstancesDramaGreat ThingsFive YearsAnarchyTiedEpisodesVacuumsKnotsRepercussionsTied UpRamifications Author:Kurt Sutter
“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.” ThinkingYearsShowsKidsTalkingFiveYeahGenuineFive YearsSwimmingListenersGrooveFive Year Olds Author:Adam Schein
“It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.” PeopleFirstsShowsNextMillionsFiveTelevisionTvsMonthsSellsNext DayTelevision Shows Author:Bob Hope
“I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.” WorldYearsDoneShowsSeemsBitsImaginationFiveCommitmentFive Years Author:John Noble
“Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.” WantDifferentShowsFilmRoomsCreativityFiveTelevisionTvsSceneEssenceSevenEightZeroTv ShowsTime And MoneyFilm And Television Author:Shailene Woodley
“I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.” WritingMatterShowsMorningFiveAirGoes OnPicksTheaterNo Matter WhatRadioCooksClockLakesSaturdayFridayDeadlineAdrenalineMonologuesLake WobegonFriday Morning Author:Garrison Keillor
“I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.” ThinkingTryingDifferentShowsProblemFormAsksFiveFourMinutesStartingDrawingDifferent ThingsFive MinutesPlaying MusicStarting Out Author:Demetri Martin
“I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.” ShowsFiveWeekNew YorkSourceSevenIncomeSoleSaturdayFriday Author:Ray Romano