And experience shows if you get the animal side right, one substantially reduces the risk of a human pandemic,

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the ’50s.

You know how mainstream news is interspersed with product ads? Well, why aren’t all the shows made entirely out of the stuff? I find commercials more believable, and I’d be more inclined to watch.

I don’t like shows, I don’t like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I have a rule – ‘funny is funny!’ When I write comedy, it’s not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant....

No one comes to my shows so they’ll feel safe and comfortable.

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five...

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. ‘M*A*S*H’ is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it’s hard to have secrets.

There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.

I’m always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in ‘El Gringo;’ it shows in the new ‘Universal Soldier.’ You can’t rest on your laurels; you’ve got to keep improving.

He’d been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants […], which he’d accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

Halfway through the set, the lead singer, who goes by Cloud, knife in hand, begins to stab at the cutout of Copal Brandt with a lion’s passion. Out of nowhere blood is produced and Cloud...

We’ve had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn’t affected our culture at all.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.

A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but ‘Breaking Bad’ keeps the tension up all the time.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I like the idea of shows where I don’t know where I’ll be at the end of the season.

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that ‘Gunsmoke’ wasn’t just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It’s always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld – he’s great because he let everyone be hilarious.

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there’ll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world’s talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.

One of my very favorite television shows growing up was ‘The Prisoner.’

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Everything I am, everything I’ve been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with ‘Cheers’. I think it’s one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best...

I love doing kids’ shows, and I love working with kids. I’ve done a lot of it. A lot of people don’t like working with children, but I love it.

Fashion shows are really my way of communication.

I just am a huge fan of PBS. They’ve taken great risks from great shows.

One thing I won’t be doing on a weekend is shopping. I just don’t like it, and I haven’t bought an article of clothing for a very long time. I usually just take wardrobe from...

In all my shows, I’m not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I’m always interested in trying to get the culture of the place –...

If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.

We’re seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

You seen my shows; I bring the ‘hood out.

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

I think we’re really – we’re doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we’ll just see what people have to say.

In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

A pacifist will often – at least nowadays – be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so...

If I’m racist, don’t think I would have directed shows like ‘The Parkers’ and ‘The Wayans Brothers’ or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on ‘Diagnosis: Murder.’

I’ve been on shows that go for shock value.

I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.

Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.

Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it’s fun.