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There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.

Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

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.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.