Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.
If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.
i don't care about the ones who i like anymore but i start caring about ones who really like me
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance.
I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.
I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.'
I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.
Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.
I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.
I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.
I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.
We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.
