125 Wire Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power. Joel Kinnaman

Problem Brilliant Power Own Think Society Everybody Way Favorite TV Moral Tries TV Show All-Time Wire Maintain How Loses Gets Going Just Stops Root Show Who Code

I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes. John Boyega

You Eyes Could Through Wire Performance Understand Audio Still Off Happening Subtle Season Four Watch Watched

We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy. John Fusco

Down Back Our Hundred Someone Wire Had Over Looked Well Globe Around Overlooked Came Tapes Italy Realized

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that. John Krasinski

Love Think Wire Like Category Fallen Office Homeland Shows

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. John Prendergast

I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments. John Trudell

Heart Word Thought Power Out See Could Take Wire Along Instruments Coming Wanted Us Electric Speaking Humans

When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it. John Waters

Life Crazy Cinema First Saw Anarchy Kid Kids Out Thousand Tried Haunted Wire Hill Equal House Tie Audience Least Came Pink Baltimore End Close Skeleton Whole

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. 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. Julian McMahon

Work You Table Throw Wire Know Because Huge Wall Did Any Just Mean Us Much Actor Extent

It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch. Kate McKinnon

Man Live Everything Bizarre Wire He Exciting Does Surprising Just Straight Straight Man Hard Creature Watch

'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements. Keanu Reeves

Work Speed Running Trilogy Point Wire Had Were Lot Matrix Jumping Green Green Screen Screen Break Then Fights Elements

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

Cinema Will Black Nothing Top Wire Historical Ever

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. Lauren Ambrose

People Believe Enough Gig Kinda City Brothers Small Wire New Like Supposed House Terrified Chicken York Going Just New York New York City Blues Blues Brothers Place Bar Room Warm-Up Really Brick Fun Play Played

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire. Leigh Steinberg

Reality Problem Impossible Fans Alcohol Dramatically Would Would-Be Athletes Wire Dropped Abuse Read Because Prove Than Convince Incidents Professional Professional Athletes Among Violence

When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, 'I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?' It turned out to be me, of course. Leon Russell

Beautiful Me School Ugly Somebody Other Back Machine Out Guy Recorded Voice Wire Had Singer Course Duet Hear Donald Grade Grade School Little Turned Us Act Who Played

I've never done a big series like 'Game of Thrones' before. All I knew was that it was HBO, and I'd seen what they had done with 'The Sopranos' and 'The Wire.' But when I started reading the script, it was a no-brainer. Yes, yes, yes. Gold. Every time I turned the page. Liam Cunningham

Time Game Seen Big Reading Before Every Every Time Wire Never No-Brainer Had Knew Like Sopranos Yes Done Gold The Sopranos Script Turned Page Game Of Thrones Series Started Started Reading

I love 'The Wire'. I can't think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love 'Doctor Who' and 'Get Smart'. Lisa Lutz

Love Doctor Smart Superior Think Air Way Television Television Show Wire Obsessed Doctor Who Also Came Get Any Show Moment Who

The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art. Martin Freeman

When you look at the big issues post-9/11 in the United States, whether it's water boarding, warantless wire tapping, surveillance, Gitmo, black sites rendition, all of those have been legal. Nobody has gone to jail for those programs. Matt Apuzzo

You Legal Water Black Big Gone Programs States Those Wire Nobody Look Rendition Issues Been Tapping Surveillance Sites Jail Whether Boarding United United States

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night. Michael Ignatieff

Day Journalist Sold Paper Paris Wire Had Since New Boy Edition Making Editors Making Up Been Off Up Times York New York New York Times Streets Copy Night

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

You Something Take Wire Identify Felt Oppressed Any Ever Level

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. Michael Schur

Wire Quotes

No more wire quotes