I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.
Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.
The birth of any show is always a rough one.
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.
In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.
My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art.
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.
There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are. ’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.
Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it is fantasy and it is a romp in that, you know, the comedy stems from shining a light on the sort of more extreme aspects of the Hollywood culture. So, you know, anytime you turn up the gas, so to speak, on the stove and make things more extreme it becomes funny. But I do think that, you know, the other half of the show is absolutely relatable and that's been an important goal of ours.
Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.
'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.
Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.
My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.
I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and you have to end the show strong. Those are the two key elements. You can't be like pancakes. You're all happy at first, but then by the end, you're sick of 'em.