Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mitchell

I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

Eliza Coupe

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

Brian Lamb

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

Reed Hastings

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

Tom Snyder

HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.

Chris Lilley

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

Gabriel Iglesias

When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.

David Chase

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

Alex Trebek

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

David Stevenson

They?re pretty much wired into these kids? heads.

Josh Byrnes

We're going to take it right down to the wire to make that decision.

Donal Logue

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

Shemar Moore

But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.

Mignon McLaughlin

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

Michael K. Williams

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

Chris Pine

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.