Booked Up Quotes

#1. In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

Fran Lebowitz

#2. If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century.

Stephen King

#3. If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

Weegee

#4. Mostly, whenever I'm booked to do instruction, I just play a little bit and get people to ask questions. We'll play some music for 'em, 'til somebody hollers out, 'Play 'Milk Cow Blues' or 'Play 'San Antonio Rose.' We play requests and demonstrate our music.

Johnny Gimble

#5. In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

Norman Wisdom

#6. Most of my work has been in L.A. or booked in L.A. and shot on location.

Katherine McNamara

#7. Don't worry about me. I plan to continue to be in show business. I have already been booked to be in a production of 'The Sunshine Boys' with Jay Leno.

David Letterman

#8. As he hands me my case, he leans forward and tells me he'll say a prayer for me. I smile back at him and I thank him. I was wrong; feelings abound even with strangers and I was glad I booked a taxi and became a fare. If I had not, I'd be down a prayer.

Yvonne Joye

#9. I've booked a few sessions to make it look like a genuine getaway but now I look at my programme, I wonder how to fit in murdering my mother-in-law." Cressida Barker-Powell (Criss Cross)

Caron Allan

#10. If you're not booked, you're not any good!

Larry Winget

#11. I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked 'One Life to Live.'

Tika Sumpter

#12. When I booked 'Orange,' I thought things were going to change a little bit, and I'd be a little more busy, but obviously I underestimated it. I don't think anyone knew that my character would be taken to so well.

Ruby Rose

#13. You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.

Ernie Els

#14. If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.

Carine Roitfeld

#15. I changed my act because I wasn't getting booked.

David Spade

#16. You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

David Lynch

#17. You have to pay your dues. And what's nice, after booking a lot of new people ... I counted the other day. We're in September and we've already booked between 30 or 40 people who've never done the show before.

Scott Aukerman

#18. I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show.

Sid Bernstein

#19. So you're getting back together with her? Just like that? Muriel asks.
"Not 'just like that'..." "How then?" Muriel enjoys playing devil's advocate. "For starters, it will have to be long distance for a while..." She doesn't let up. "For a while? Have you booked the U-Haul already?

Harper Bliss

#20. I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

Kristen Bell

#21. My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I literally didn't know what to say.

Joseph Gatt

#22. Brennan remembers a Nortel recruiting truck showing up at a Newbridge mass termination meeting at the local hockey arena and offers this practical advice: "If all the meeting rooms are booked at the same time, it means something's up." By "something," he means firings.

Douglas Coupland

#23. When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.

Harry Shum Jr.

#24. I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.

Vanessa Morgan

#25. I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Frank Ocean

#26. I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

Ashley Greene

#27. When I got out of college, I booked a movie called 'Go for It!' with Lionsgate, came out here, and I've been acting ever since - or trying, constantly trying.

Gina Rodriguez

#28. We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal.

Benny Green

#29. Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

Joel McHale

#30. A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

John Bolton

#31. I booked 'Transformers' having no clue what I was doing. And then, all of a sudden, it was like: 'You've got to get your game together fast.' It sucks, but I'm trying.

Megan Fox

#32. Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.

Bill Vaughan

#33. When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.

Jack McBrayer

#34. I've never considered myself to be naturally funny and it wasn't until I booked my first few jobs in Hollywood that I started thinking, "I guess I'm funny."

Erick Chavarria

#35. I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.

Kevin Whately

#36. I was doing television and films for a good five years, and then I booked 'Cry-Baby.'

James Snyder

#37. I was booked into the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas with three other comedians. We all were using the Riviera in-house shampoo, so we all had equal shine and bounce.

Mitch Hedberg

#38. When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

Johnny Cash

#39. As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Demian Bichir

#40. We have disappointments all the time in the business, and I've lost way more projects than I've booked. I've learned from every opportunity and have been chosen for some really great projects!

Bella Thorne

#41. My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

Frank Iero

#42. Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.

Renee Fleming