Wire Quotes

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

For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff. Even something like The Wire, which can be hugely depressing and really serious, the bits I always remember are the jokes, you know?

No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's only been a huge, huge, very fortunate bonus.

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

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

I'm such a fan of Deadwood. I love the characters in that. They're such wonderful characters. I'm a fan of The Wire. Those are all heavily character-based shows.

I've been watching The Wire recently.

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire."

I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.

I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

It's good to know the guy who's holding onto your wire is someone you trust and you know he's not going to let you fall.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Everybody has a stunt except me. Every single person has a stunt, but I don't have a stunt, there's nothing. No wire, no pulling. I try to get in on the danger, but there's nothing.

Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.

'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.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

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

The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

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.

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.

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

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.

[Oz the Great] it's not like I had to imagine things, and as far as wire work goes, I had fun with it.

I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.

Wired people should know something about wires.

It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.

You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire.

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

I personally didn't like the idea of Bond in space. Having to fly around on a wire was not particularly comfortable, and I didn't like the outfit. It had a terrible helmet.

Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.