Harry Shearer Quotes

I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever.

I was fortunate enough to book a pilot, and we just got picked up for a midseason replacement for ABC. It's called 'Romantically Challenged,' and I'm going to be playing Alyssa Milano's little sister. The other actor in it is Kyle Bornheimer from 'Worst Week' - he's hilarious.

One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'

Literally, my first audition after 'The Life Aquatic' was for the 'Criminal Minds' pilot.

When I read the pilot of 'The Sopranos,' I wasn't terribly blown away by it.

At the end of the day, my biggest fear in life is that I'm gonna wind up being an actor who plays the dad on a TV show like 'Full House' or 'Small Wonder' or something - I'm, like, the desexualized dad in the show 'Alf.'

I've always been a fan of 'Black-ish.'

I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!

I did a pilot for Nickelodeon that didn't end up going to series.

I'm a big 'Cosby Show' fan.

'Hee Haw' was a huge influence on me.

'The Originals' is going to be an epic showdown of supernatural forces, and that was very evident in the pilot. I just wanted to be a part of that.

Literally, when the pilot came out for 'Glee,' I think we had a watching party or something. We were all seniors, and everyone all of a sudden in the show choir were so excited. We were like, 'This show is awesome. It's so cool. This is exactly us.'

We've talked about a sitcom and a comedy drama. It's getting the right project and working with the right people.

I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.

If you go back and look at the pilot of 'Seinfeld,' no one would have thought that show would be what it became, and television isn't given that kind of chance anymore.

Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you've written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that's actually real.

I remember watching the premiere of the pilot episode of 'Next Gen' when I was a teenager.