“What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.” PeopleTryingRealDoneStoriesShowsBeautifulGuyBe GoodReal LifeBad ThingsBad GuysWireThings DoneGood GuyTrue Life Author:Tristan Wilds
“As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.” ThinkingGivingImportantRealPlayFactsStoriesShowsSeemsRolesReal LifeSuspenseResonancePlausibleSmall Roles Author:Michael Loceff
“I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint well, a saint who curses.” WellsDoeRealShowsKidsSchoolStuffWifeMarriedLet MeSaintMy WifeReal LifeCurseShow BusinessMistressAdulation Author:Ray Romano
“'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.” YearsIdeasRealShowsWould BeWantedReal LifeAnimatedBeing Cool Author:Jonah Hill
“My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.” TwoRealShowsKidsAgeBoysBreakPaidCamerasReal Life Author:Alan Thicke
“I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my real life. But I'm very, very interested in how people put themselves together, how women and men announce themselves to the world, through what they put on their bodies. Whether we choose Birkenstocks or whether we choose Burberry - it all signifies something and it's really interesting to me.” PeopleMenWorldRealShowsBodyTogetherStuffInterestInterestingFashionMen And WomenReal LifeTrendsReally InterestingFashion ShowBurberryBirkenstocks Author:Meryl Streep
“The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.” RealShowsAudienceDoorsOfficeGainsTheaterBoxesStormReal LifeLife And DeathCrashEntrancesSleepyBox OfficeSensationalCourthouses Author:Clarence Darrow