Skip to main content

Daily Inspiration Quote by Lee Majors

"I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there"

About this Quote

There is a particular kind of showbiz astonishment hiding in Lee Majors' plainspoken logistics: the sense that television, at its most industrial, can still feel like a magic trick. He’s not marveling at acting technique or storytelling; he’s marveling at labor design. Two hours most days, one long day, then a night shoot in front of an audience and you’re gone. The cadence is so clean it sounds almost suspicious, like finding out the sausage factory runs on banker’s hours.

That’s the subtext: Majors is measuring the gap between the punishing, amorphous grind of film and location-heavy TV work he came up in, and the oddly humane efficiency of a multi-camera sitcom or studio-based production. The line “I’ve never seen” does quiet cultural work, positioning him as a veteran who’s survived messier eras of production, when “schedule” was more aspiration than reality. His wonder is also a backhanded compliment to the machine: this is entertainment built like an assembly line, timed to the rhythm of a live audience, engineered for repetition.

The final clause, “and you’re out of there,” lands like a relief valve. It’s not just about leaving set; it’s about leaving the role. Majors is describing a format that contains the work, limits the bleed, and turns performance into something you can clock in, nail, and clock out from. In an industry that loves to romanticize suffering, that practicality reads almost radical.

Quote Details

TopicWork
SourceHelp us find the source
Cite

Citation Formats

APA Style (7th ed.)
Majors, Lee. (2026, January 16). I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-never-seen-a-schedule-where-you-just-go-in-104633/

Chicago Style
Majors, Lee. "I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-never-seen-a-schedule-where-you-just-go-in-104633/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-never-seen-a-schedule-where-you-just-go-in-104633/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

More Quotes by Lee Add to List
Lee Majors on the Rhythm of Multicamera Sitcoms
Click to enlarge Portrait | Landscape

About the Author

USA Flag

Lee Majors (born April 23, 1939) is a Actor from USA.

27 more quotes available

View Profile

Similar Quotes