“I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.” YearsI CanPlayWaitingRolesFourTvsMy FriendsCanadaCall MeFour YearsWaiting Around Author:Sandra Oh
“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.” YearsFirstsStillsHelpingShowsLinesActingFourAdviceTvsTenToughHollywoodCoachingTv ShowsMovie Sets Author:Michael Pena
“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.” MenYearsEnoughLastsPayQualityFourWeekTvsCivilizationTaxesEssentialsOfficeLowsPaidPlantSevenTerrorCustomsFarmersSovietRegimesCollapseCommerceLast YearSecretaryCurtainsSalaryCornWheatPropsHigh QualityBribeAcresSubsidiesMedianFederal Taxes Author:Alan Bock
“As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.” WantYearsEndsShowsThreeActorsFourTvsFour YearsTv Shows Author:Michael Ian Black
“We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.” PeopleIfsYearsDoeShowsFourImagineAirTvsFour YearsTv Shows Author:Matt Groening
“The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.” PeopleHomeNightNextHousePartyFourSpecialTvsGreenSeriesShoesClubsLegsRidiculousNext DayAll NightWrapsTv Series Author:Amelia Warner
“When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.” ShowsBitsIssuesFourTvsApproachSeasonsI RealizedVolumeTv ShowsDice Author:Michael McMillian
“My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!” WayLongRememberFatherHoursHalfFourJourneyTvsTrainSatSupper Author:Maeve Binchy
“Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentShowsMotherHoursDarkRoomsFourFrontsTvsAmountSittingRadioMicrophonesTeresaDark Room Author:Wendy Williams
“The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.” KnowsWantI CanKidsFourTvsNot SureDeafness Author:Marlee Matlin
“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.” YearsChildrenLittlesMatterReasonPlayMotherTurnsGirlParentBoysRolesFiveFourStyleTvsBabyHusbandClothesDoctorsNo Matter WhatRefusePopsFive YearsSexismDishesWashingDronesFive Year OldsInsistingChildren Playing Author:Stella Chess
“My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.” FirstsShowsFourDoorsCarTvsTv ShowsGreySlateGreat DayBmw Author:Rebecca Mader
“I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.” PersonsStillsHomeNightMorningFourTvsOfficeRadioLeisureSetupsNight Person Author:Jack Kirby
“This product that was on TV was available for four easy payments of $19.95. I would like a product that was available for three easy payments and one complicated payment. We can't tell you which payment it is, but one of these payments is going to be hard. The mailman will get shot, the envelope will not seal, the stamp will be in the wrong denomination. The final payment must be made in wampum.” MadeHardHumorFunnyThreeEasyFourTvsProductsShotsFinalsAvailableComplicatedStampsPaymentSealsEnvelopesDenominationsMailman Author:Mitch Hedberg
“When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.” IfsYearsMadeJobsActingCareersFourWeekTvsNeededDecidedCastsIf I CouldTake MeProtectedSurfMorris Author:Thomas Haden Church
“I stopped directing in 2001 for - oh, damn - four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.” YearsLongFiveFourMastersTvsHorrorDirectorsLong TimeSeriesFive YearsBurnedTv SeriesBurned Out Author:John Carpenter
“If you're a prostitute, this is your day: You party, you have customers until four or six in the morning, then you sleep. You wake at noon, watch soaps on TV, take two or three hours to fancy up yourself, and then you start waiting for customers. That's your life. And some days no customers come. There's no party. There's nothing. You sit there and wait. If you're educated you can read books, but in Bangladesh and most other places you watch TV or listen to music or cook.” IfsTwoBookThreeWaitingHoursSleepPartyWatchesMorningFourTvsSixCustomersEducatedCooksFancyListening To MusicSoapNoonBangladesh Author:Michael Glawogger
“It's easy to leave people wanting more after the first episode, but it's hard to leave people wanting more after the 24th episode. And it's my job, more than anybody else's, to keep that in mind. One season, in TV terms, is nothing. You need to hit it for three or four seasons, and then you're doing well, in TV terms. Then, you've done your job.” PeopleNeedsMindFirstsWellsHardDoneJobsThreeEasyTermFourTvsSeasonsEpisodesWanting MoreFour Seasons Author:Bruno Heller
“Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us.” PeopleYearsTwoShowsWantedFourDoorsTvsBandTestsScreensTwo YearsPlatformsTv ShowsAuditionsSonyNickelodeon Author:James Maslow
“I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.” IfsYearsI CanStoriesCoursesFourTelevisionTvsStudiosFeaturesFour Years Author:Alex Hirsch
“I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island at night. I watched it all. There were only four channels, so you could actually consume all of television if you were good at changing the channel.” IfsNightMorningFantasyFourTelevisionTvsBoatIslandsDukesLove BoatDukes Of Hazzard Author:Justin Theroux
“TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.” IfsYearsDecisionFiveFourWeekTvsSixSeriesFilmmakerTv Series Author:Marc Blucas
“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!” ThinkingMenI CanKidsWantedUsedHouseLeftBlackWhiteRoomsMorningFiveFourTvsMomDadMarriedThirdsMy DadBoxesDivorceAssGradesBreakfastBlack And WhiteCaptainsSurvivedFurnitureDivorcedCouchesLiving RoomRubberCrunchThird GradeSleepovers Author:Christopher Titus