Show Closure Quotes

I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and you rehearse like crazy, but after opening night, the director's not there anymore, you know. He gives you notes during previews after each performance, but opening night, you're on your own.

I miss my 'Facts of Life' family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some time before we called it quits.

I think at the end of a show, you have to walk out with a message. That's my hardest struggle right now; that's what I'm working towards.

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'

And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.

I do realize that television shows end.

When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.

Nothing runs forever. How you handle it, the most important thing is how you respect your audience, how you respect your cast, and being incredibly sensitive to how you wrap up any show when it ends a successful run.

I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.

My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.

I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

A lot of shows, like 'Cupid,' that I loved with all my heart, it shouldn't have been canceled.

Honestly, it's a sad truth, but whenever a show is about to go off air, you start getting hints because the work environment and quality changes.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

There are not that many people who can say they have been on a show long enough to leave it. Usually, you don't have a choice. The show gets canceled. There are very few people who live in the rare air of being able to leave a show while it is still in production.

Not many people whose series gets cancelled get to come and put the period at the end of the sentence.

Things end in this business. Shows get canceled, or you walk away from them - but most likely, things get canceled.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.