Top 276 Hbo Quotes & Sayings

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

On its surface, the HBO documentary series 'Hard Knocks,' about the New York Jets' training camp, resembles another HBO series, 'The Sopranos.' Both star the stout patriarch of a New Jersey 'family' preoccupied with food, intimidation, and florid profanity.

I love HBO's 'Girls.' I like that show a lot.

I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."

I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

I am very lucky that my first film was fully commissioned by HBO.

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.

I'm very excited to fight for the first time in the United States and on HBO.

I'm very, very proud to have been at what I feel are two of the pivotal moments in this whole new Golden Era of television - one being 'The Sopranos' with HBO and now with Netflix expanding that whole HBO concept to the world and making it more of a global thing. It's been wonderful to witness that from those two vantage points.

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

I've come to regard the superior end of HBO drama as, above all, novelistic.

I recently saw HBO's 'Getting On,' and I was like, 'That's awesome.' I love that tone. It's a great show.

I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I'm thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I've seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal. I started having a panic attack seeing my name in that list of people. It was pretty overwhelming.

I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool.

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

HBO was a big thing for stand-up, and when you're a broke kid with absolutely nothing to do on the weekend, there was always video recording your HBO specials. I would just rewind those specials and watch them like they were new again.

Since Chris Albrecht took over the network, I think more and more people are finding Starz. He made HBO what HBO became, and now he's doing the same thing at Starz.

I went to college for communications, so I came out and said I wanted to work for the greatest communications company, and I ended up at HBO - and I couldn't have been happier. And now, as an actress, I wound up back at HBO - and they truly are the best.

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

When 'Sex and the City' aired its first season, people didn't know about HBO as a place for original series. People weren't saying, 'Oh I've got to watch 'Sex and the City'!' They found it later. In some ways, it helped change what people thought of HBO.

The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on HBO in my hometown is huge. To be great you have to fight the best. Chad has beaten the best so these are the type fights I want to take. I will put on a great show for all the fans that come out to Oracle Arena.

If there's a new HBO series, you know there's going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery - that you can trust it.

What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.

My beard is owned by HBO.

I did an HBO movie called Undefeated that I directed. It was too hard.

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

I owe absolutely everything to HBO.

I'm grateful to HBO for telling my story, and I'd like to thank everyone for their ongoing support.

When I got 'Stargate: Atlantis,' I said, 'Man, I'd love to be on HBO.'

Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.

I've been a fan of Bob Odenkirk since he was on HBO originally with 'Mr. Show.'

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.

I told my agent that I wouldn't do TV unless it was Ryan Murphy, 'House of Cards,' or HBO.

HBO is not an advertiser-based model, it's a subscription model. So what's significant to HBO is not necessarily the debut of an episode, it's the cumulative numbers.

My first job out of college was with HBO. I worked in a small sales office in Chicago. So, I can say that even when I was just a little, low-on-the-totem-pole assistant for HBO, they were always amazing.

This is a dream come true. HBO is the highest echelon in the world for a stand-up comedian to attain. Throughout my career I've trusted my instincts to lead me down the right path, and I am honored to work together with this network while contributing to the legacy that is HBO.

It's my pleasure and honor to be here fighting on HBO and in the United States.

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.

HBO Go is a fantastic way to spend your time.

It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

This woman [Lena Dunham] makes up being raped or something at Oberlin College and then she did commercials for Hillary [Clinton] so she's a darling, she ran that TV show at HBO. HBO's a left-wing enclave. It's worshiped. And so she benefits from that.

HBO is turning 'Game Change' into a miniseries, and they've cast Ed Harris as my dad.

I wanted to move on. I wanted to do acting. The next thing I did after [MADtv] was a good hybrid of that. I did this show with Bob Odenkirk and Derek Waters (creator of Comedy Central's "Drunk History") and it was a little homegrown thing that we shot and then we sold it to HBO. We made a pilot and HBO didn't pick it up, but then we made all these webisodes. This was before streaming stuff online made any sense. (The episodes are available on YouTube). Nobody even knew how to watch things on the internet.

I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.