“It's much, much harder working on a show than it is working on a movie. It really is. Even if you're in production, that production lasts for a set period of time. A TV show goes on for months and months and months.” IfsShowsLastsTvsMonthsGoes OnPeriodsHarderProductionsTv Shows Author:Zak Penn
“I love performing ! It's true that you're only as good as your last show. You have to keep testing yourself and keep that lump in your throat before you go on.” ShowsLastsGoes OnPerformingThroatTestingLumpsTesting Yourself Author:Delbert McClinton
“What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.” NeedsHas BeensFactsShowsFightingGoes OnMovedClimateClimate ChangeHostOffensiveTalk ShowsMisinterpreted Author:John F. Kerry
“A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.” IfsWayBookShowsWould BeVirtueGoes OnSouthMusicalCreatorParksCartoonBroadwayOffendedCharlieAnalogiesPretensionMormonismBroadway MusicalCharlie HebdoCartoon Shows Author:Adam Gopnik
“The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck."” ShowsGoes OnHundredLuckBudgetsGood LuckBucks Author:David Cook
“Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.” ShowsTakenGoes OnTasksRadioThank GodTalk Radio Author:Guy Maddin
“You can go to these chat-lines. It's not hard it's really easy. Another thing the show makes clear is not talking about these issues is what leads kids to go on the Internet and find out the information themselves. And then they come across people like Mr. Healy wanting to meet them in the park. That's what leads to these kind of more-dangerous things.” PeopleKindHardShowsKidsEasyLinesTalkingIssuesClearDangerousInformationGoes OnInternetParksNot TalkingDangerous Things Author:Sarah Steele
“For instance, my friend would never go on the show to air her dirty-laundry. But Tremont is outrageous! I've been watching a lot of clips of "The Jerry Springer Show" on YouTube (I can't tell you how many clips there are!) I get to witness these men going through the process to become women and what they're sharing. My character is pre-op. She's had the breast augmentation but still got "the goods" down there.” MenStillsI CanCharacterShowsProcessAirGoes OnMy FriendsInstanceWitnessDirtyBreastsGoodsYoutubeOutrageousJerryLaundryClipDirty LaundryJerry Springer Show Author:Max von Essen
“You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesReasonShowsHappensMovingGoes OnLaborNarrativeBusJust Do ItLabor Of Love Author:Stephen Malkmus
“One of the things I've learned - before I would go on a show, I was like, "Oh God, I hate that show" or "That show is gonna get canceled." But now after being full-time on a show, you see how difficult it is and how much work goes into it and how so many decisions are based on finances or people's schedules or talent or location issues. It's a miracle that anything gets made.” PeopleMadeShowsHateDifficultDecisionIssuesTalentGoes OnMiracleI HateFinanceI've LearnedLocationSchedulesThings I've Learned Author:Fiona Gubelmann
“For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically.” KnowsShowsAirGoes OnVersions Author:Scott Raab
“I had the opportunity to go on 2 tours with Selena Gomez and that really boosted the exposure and experience for me. It was when I got a shot at The Voice that I really got the biggest boost and got to show what I could do!” ShowsOpportunityVoiceGoes OnShotsExposureBoost Author:Christina Grimmie
“I wasn't even in a theater because I guess nobody believed in me, so I was in the hallway of a theater on a platform that they would move so the main stage show could go on at eight o'clock and I'd be gone.” ShowsMovingGoneStageGoes OnTheaterEightClockPlatformsHallways Author:John Leguizamo
“Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."” LongSaidTwoShowsFiveMinutesGoes OnJokesBoredFive Minutes Author:Eric Andre
“Movies that I remember working on, or things that I remember working on, are things that took years of struggle and strife to get them off the ground or get them in front of the public. You don't have that kind of strife or whatever with a television show. It has an automatic platform. You go in, you do your job, and then it goes on air, and that's that.” YearsKindShowsJobsRememberStruggleAirFrontsTelevisionGoes OnPlatformsStrifeTelevision Shows Author:Brady Corbet
“Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing.” LooksKindLittlesShowsNextStuffMy OwnForgetHalfTalkingMorningWrittenInspireTvsGoes OnComputerNotesBoringActressesLittle ThingsWowMuteLettermanPlugging In Author:Terry Bozzio
“One of the joys of this show [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that each of those characters could be starring in their own show. It's only as the show goes on that you realize how they interconnect. They're all moving towards one another inexorably, to meet at a certain point.” CharacterShowsMovingJoyCertainRealizingGoes OnAgencyDetectivesHolisticDirk Gently Author:Samuel Barnett
“I've been told over and over not to go on the Bill Maher show. Well, my best moments have happened on the Bill Maher show. It's been magic for me.” WellsMomentsShowsHappenedMagicGoes OnBillsBest Moments Author:Andrew Breitbart
“That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would've been really great had it continued. I know Brannon Braga, who was running the show at the time, had a lot of really interesting ideas for what was going to happen the second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons, and they had it really planned out what was going to go on. But CBS just decided to pull the plug on it.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasShowsHappensRunningInterestingGoes OnDecidedThirdsSeasonsSeriesFourthReally GreatFifthReally InterestingThresholdPlugsInteresting Ideas Author:Brent Spiner
“People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these Sunday shows and they say: "Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong - he works for the Russians."” PeoplePlayShowsLeftWaitingPartyGoes OnChineseAgencyOfficialsSundayCommitteesSpyTraitorHong KongCheerleaderSnowden Author:Edward Snowden
“If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as a one man show. They're all stand alone essays.” IfsMenShowsActorsHoursStageGoes OnOne ManBroadwayEssaysStand Alone Author:Jay Mohr
“With this show [Stand-Up Revolution ], I loved the idea that I would be picking the talent that goes on, not the network. It was me handpicking people who might not have gotten the chance to be on TV. So, I thought it was real cool that I was putting people up there.” PeopleIdeasRealShowsMightWould BeChanceTalentTvsRevolutionGoes On Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.” WayMayShowsFilmSidesTelevisionGoes OnCoupleTelevision ShowsLife Goes On Author:Norman Lear
“The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.” PeopleShowsGoes OnDesperate Author:Graham Norton
“All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities ... the list goes on!” IfsHelpingShowsChancePayResponsibilityConditionsGoes OnEqualMembersTrainingEvidenceSafetyTradeUnionsCaringListsGet BetterEqual PayTrade UnionsHealth And Safety Author:Frances O'Grady
“Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.” ShowsGoes OnComedian Author:Bill O'Reilly
“When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.” ThinkingYearsHelpingShowsAgeSpiritFatherMy OwnExampleGoes OnMissionsMissionaryRecallsThirteenMissionary Work Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.” KnowsShowsCitiesGoes OnMajorsCrowdsBeerRiot Author:Lou Reed
“Every television show you go on is a choice.” ShowsChoicesTelevisionGoes OnTelevision Shows Author:Joan Rivers
“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.” ShouldWellsLongWarShowsRememberGoes OnClothesGunBluePaintNobleAppropriateFlagsPigsCradleOratoryGruntFoursCats Cradle Author:Kurt Vonnegut