It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

- Idris Elba

'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

- Wendell Pierce

It was such a joy to be an actor on 'The Wire.'

- Tom McCarthy

I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.

- Trent Reznor

But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.

- Shemar Moore

'The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

- Michael K. Williams

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

- Joey Skaggs

When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.

- John Prendergast

We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.

- John Fusco

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

- Adam Sandler

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

- Ian Hart

No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all.

- Dominic West

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

- David Mitchell

'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.

- Ben Bass

The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.

- Brian Lamb

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

- Ben Marcus

I started directing on 'The Wire.'

- Anthony Hemingway

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

- Alexander Calder