Wire Quotes - page 5

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story. (Joey Skaggs)
I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time. View quote
John Gallagher, Jr.
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same. View quote
John Prendergast
I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing. View quote
Joshua Roman
You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall. View quote
Julian McMahon
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality. View quote
Lance Reddick
We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it. View quote
Lauren Ambrose
I started directing on 'The Wire.' View quote
Anthony Hemingway
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. View quote
Bob Greene
The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy. View quote
Bob Greene
My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion. (Carmen Busquets)
'The Wire' fans are very specific and hard core. Nobody is neutral about 'The Wire.' You either love it, or you couldn't watch it, and there is no in-between. View quote
Deirdre Lovejoy
I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers. View quote
Deirdre Lovejoy
I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character. View quote
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. View quote
Michael K. Williams
The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events. View quote
Michael K. Williams
My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal. View quote
Michael Schur
We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds. View quote
Nik Wallenda
What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire. View quote
Nik Wallenda
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things. View quote
Peter Morgan
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker. (Philippe Petit)
The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life. View quote
Philippe Petit
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. View quote
Philippe Petit
Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do. View quote
Philippe Petit
A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia. View quote
Phillip Noyce