Dick York Quotes

Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.

North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'

Whenever I wanted to talk to anyone on the East Coast, it was way too late. Living three hours behind was one thing I complained about. The other thing, of course, was just that there were no seasons. I would complain about that too. Just tons of complaining, man, early on. I can't believe I'm still friends with the people I was friends with when I first started in LA.

As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.

You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

Theoretically, I could do a movie, but the window is so small, it's very difficult to get timings right and find the right project you love, and they love you back.

It doesn't matter if one is live on-air or sitting through a commercial break. There aren't any on or off switches on a lapel pin microphone; it is always 'hot.'