“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.” PeopleEnoughTurnsStarsMillionsMinutesRocksStageFrontsTvsThousandLuckyConcertsRock StarSpinal Tap Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.” ThinkingEnoughProblemLinesBrainTvsExerciseScriptsForgetfulness Author:Kevin Whately
“My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWritingLittlesEnoughShowsStarsBitsFictionMillionsTvsApproachLittle BitScience FictionDollarsScreensJustifyExpensesGood EnoughArrogantEpisodesTv Shows Author:David Gerrold
“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
“What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.” LooksKindBookEnoughShowsBodyStuffAliveTvsIndustrySellsCreatorComicComic BookTv ShowsCostumesEnough Time Author:Mike Mignola
“At first all I wanted to be was famous; then I realized that fame had nothing to do with talent. I felt that I didn't do anything quite well enough, that I was one of those people who was famous but not very talented. So I said, okay, I'll be the Dinah Shore of the Seventies, on TV all the time but nobody quite knows why.” PeopleKnowsFirstsWellsSaidEnoughWantedFeltTalentTvsFameOkayI RealizedShoreSeventies Author:Cher
“... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.” PeopleMenBelieveStillsWarRealEnoughGovernmentCareHumanityStreetsMilitaryInformationHe ManTvsPagesHappeningsShotsDifficultyScreensShootingFilesWebsitePrintedFaith In Humanity Author:Marie Colvin
“People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.” PeopleEnoughFilmStarsTvsScalesMediumsBehaveAweFilm Stars Author:Tom Hollander
“If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?” IfsThinkingKnowsEnoughJoyTvsWhat IfShepherds Author:Adam Carolla
“We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.” KnowsStatesEnoughOpinionWatchesDangerousDangerTvsCivilizationMagazinesAdsAdequateUnhealthy Author:Werner Herzog
“Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.” PeopleIfsWantGivingTryingWellsPersonsIdeasHardEnoughShowsHappensNextWinningStuffCan DoSleepTvsGiving UpNormalResourcesTablesStudiosRingsWheelsPoolGigsCrushedBrassBlockbusterEmmysJust Give Up Author:Joss Whedon
“You consciously look after yourself, whatever that may be to you, whether it's going out for a few drinks and a bit of dinner, or just hitting the couch and watching TV, or going to the gym or yoga class. Just being aware that there's a potential for you to be in it and respecting wherever you find yourself is good enough.” LooksMayEnoughBitsClassTvsDrinkYogaDinnerFinding YourselfGood EnoughGymHittingJust BeingGoing OutCouchesWatching TvLook After Yourself Author:Colin Farrell
“I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing.” KnowsStillsI CanEnoughWholeEnjoyTeamFieldsFootballTvsScreensWatching Football Author:Tony Dungy
“I'm old enough to remember when there were no black quarterbacks - there were no blacks on TV. I hope my son or daughter doesn't have to be as fixated on race as I am, because he or she will grow up in freer times.” EnoughRememberGrowsBlackRaceGrowing UpSonTvsDaughterMy SonRemember WhenQuarterback Author:Chris Rock
“There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.” WorldWantEnoughHumorRealityFunnyHateStuffBitsTvsI HatePsychedelicReality Tv Author:Noel Fielding
“Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.” KnowsFeelsEnoughLife IsGrowing UpGrowingTvsLike YouScreensTeenagerDramatic Author:Ben Folds
“Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings about how the characters should act. When the scriptwriters go slightly wrong, when they make the character make a left turn that he or she wouldn't do, you know enough about the characters to say, "No, that's not what she would do there. That's wrong." You can actually argue with a TV show in a way that you can't do as much with movie - you inhabit a TV show in the way you inhabit a novel.” KnowsWayShouldEnoughCharacterShowsFeelingsTurnsLeftNovelTvsArguingDo You KnowEpisodesTv Shows Author:Nicholson Baker
“While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.” EnoughWantedFeltSawsMissingCollegeTvsBoxingMmaWrestlingJuniorsMissing SomethingKickboxing Author:Cain Velasquez
“If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.” IfsKnowsDoneEnoughHelpingStoriesShowsLosesAttentionFocusPolicyTvsPoliticianSmartDeserveCompromiseWeedTv ShowsAutonomyThings Done Author:Tony Goldwyn
“TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.” IfsWritingEnoughTvsLuckyMeetingsVegasLas VegasCasinosUnlucky Author:Dan Harmon
“I'm fortunate enough to act in a TV show that makes me a lot of money so I can pay for my own movies. I don't have to wait for anybody and that's more of what I like doing. But I still think that you don't have to be connected in the industry to make your movie. You just have to write something that is meant to be made cheaply.” ThinkingWritingMadeStillsI CanEnoughShowsWaitingMy OwnPayTvsIndustryConnectedFortunateMeant To BeLots Of MoneyTv Shows Author:Mark Duplass
“I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.” EndsEnoughPlayMomentsShowsGirlPerfectActingRolesStruggleOne ThingIdentityTvsTv ShowsAuditionsPackagesClicheDevastatedAlways WrongPopular Girl Author:Brie Larson
“I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's very much about the character and how different it is from something I've done earlier.” WorldWellsDifferentDoneEnoughCharacterFilmTvsTasteLuckyFeaturesBroadway Author:Yvonne Strahovski
“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
“TV can be fairly rigid. I've done enough Network TV to know that it's fun but if I have to go somewhere every day maybe it's not the most satisfying [job].” IfsKnowsDoneEnoughJobsFunTvsSatisfying Author:Jenny Slate
“Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends.” EnoughSacrificeTvsLuxuryOur FamilyFamily And Friends Author:Ryan Blair
“I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. These shows like Forensic Files, City Confidential, I just can't get enough of them. It's always the same sort of deal. You know that they interview the actual people that lived through the experience. I miss Paul Winfield as the host of City Confidential, may he rest in peace.” PeopleKnowsMayEnoughShowsDealsCitiesMissingTvsMurderTownsCourtInterviewsHostSmall TownFilesHookedRest In PeaceConfidentialForensics Author:Kevin Pollak
“Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.” PeopleSelfEnoughRealityPerfectTvsAntidoteSelf CenteredReality TvDouchebags Author:Dana Gould
“All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed.” PeopleWayFirstsLongArtEnoughProblemEyeFormSidesForgetTelevisionTvsProductsRight NowEntertainmentAdvertisingCommerceEmployedCandyAdvertisementsSeparatingE CommerceEye Candy Author:Chris Hardwick
“Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain.” WritingHeartEnoughWaterLinesEffortFrontsTvsScreensNewspapersVideoRecoveryPublishingFlavorEssaysMachineryTemperatureLoneBloggersLone WolfHeart WrenchingIllustrating Author:Tim Bray
“These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.” EnoughShowsStarsTvsProducersPostsThese DaysTv ShowsMovie Star Author:Dustin Diamond
“Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.” PeopleKnowsMadeEnoughAmericaFrontsTelevisionMaterialsTvsHugeAmountHabitSorryRadiationI Am SorryAm SorryWatching Tv Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“I found myself in Zurich Airport. I'd done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That's the way they do it in Switzerland. And I'd had a bit of a late night with members of her band. And I was - my flight was delayed. And I was sitting in the airport, and I just came up with the idea. And by the time, we landed at Heathrow, I'd pretty much sort of got it.” WayIdeasDoneEnoughShowsNightFoundBitsTvsBandMembersLateSittingFlightTv ShowsAirportsDelayedSwitzerlandStaplesLate NightZurich Author:Nick Lowe
“I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.” LittlesEnoughCharacterPresidentPowerfulTvsLuckyAdministration Author:Geena Davis