Quotes About Entertainment

Matt Leinart's L.A. duplex looks more like a Chuck E. Cheese safe house than a millionaire jock's crash pad. There's the requisite leather couch and flat-screen television, but the rest of the ground floor is bare except for a pile of Nick Jr. DVDs, a high chair, and a SpongeBob SquarePants director's chair.

Movies are my pill. I can talk non-stop about them.

When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Whenever I pick a script, I make sure I'm choosing something I would want to watch. And 'Quantico' was something I'd definitely want to watch. As soon as I read the pilot - and I read 26 this season - I knew this was it.

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

I actually worked on the pilot of 'The Chase' and wrote the questions on it.

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

Before we shot the pilot, I knew what 'Dallas' was, but I actually was too young to remember the details of the show. I didn't have my hands on the DVDs, so I YouTubed everything I could of J.R.

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'

I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.

I did a couple of pilots that didn't sell, a few movies, and one year of nightclub work, which I hated. Then I did the pilot of 'The Brady Bunch' and never had to do another nightclub.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting 'Awakening'.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

I love pinball.

I just always loved pinball.

That's usually what I indulge in if I play some games - pinball.

If you call making people smile with 'The Pink Panther,' then I made a contribution.

It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'