Air Quote by Lena Dunham

After I left the 'Daily Show,' I was kind of sitting out for five years. I know what it's like to not be able…

— Wyatt Cenac

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

— Tyra Banks

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen,…

— Paul McCartney

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and…

— Judge Mills Lane

I've been on shows that went for years and years and years, and I was not ready for that again.

— Jason Momoa

I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn't want to do it.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we…

— Matt Stone

The show started out very aspirational. But by the time I left, it was becoming something else and I knew it was time to…

— Lauren Conrad

I was going to hang it up on the twenty-fifth year of this show. I don't know why. Maybe twenty-five years is enough. And…

— Johnny Carson

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't…

— Al Yankovic

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be…

— Martin Milner

I tended to do a lot of shows that were ahead of their time and didn't run very long.

— Brent Spiner