Television Shows Quotes - Page 4

• So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mean, Men, Years

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.139, Univ of California Press

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• The nice thing about a video game is that you can explore the dimensions of a character so much more deeply than you can in a television show or even in a movie.

  Kevin Conroy

  Nice, Character, Games

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.

  Elijah Wood

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.

  Michelle Fairley

  Drama, Reading, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I feel incredibly lucky to be working on a television show where the writing is always geared towards us growing and changing.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Writing, Character, Lucky

  "Comic Con: Jennifer Morrison, Robert Carlyle, Colin O’Donoghue, Emile De Ravin, and Michael Raymond-James Talk ONCE UPON A TIME Season 3". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. July 24, 2013.

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• I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.

  David Oyelowo

  Moving, Actors, Television

  Source: variety.com

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• If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.

  Ray McKinnon

  Pain, Smart, Talking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• One thing about everything that I've done is it's so diverse and all over the place, from doing crazy stunts that I can't believe that I've done to launching professional skateboard leagues to all types of different business stuff and television shows. To me, I'm real proud of the body of work, that I've done as opposed to one thing specifically.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Crazy, Real, Believe

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• When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Air, Luxury

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• I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.

  Jon Hurwitz

  Thinking, Television, Horror

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• Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.

  George W. Bush

  Survivor, Television, Taglines

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• When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Numbers, Twenties

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hope to be making television shows and films, and creating content that captivates Latinos. I try not to think about it too much, though. I'm more focused in the present.

  Jon Huertas

  Thinking, Creating, Trying

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• I really do think that Breaking Bad is probably the greatest television show that's ever been made. Just in terms of, everything, it's flawless. I can't think of one flaw with Breaking Bad. Every other show, even shows that I really, really love, they're not perfect. Breaking Bad, to me, is a perfect show.

  Scott Clifton

  Thinking, Perfect, Television

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show was picked up, I realized there was no way for me to do stand-up three or four nights a week and run this television show with Ben. So that was the moment when I had to make a choice.

  Judd Apatow

  Running, Writing, Night

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.

  Billy Eichner

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.

  James Wolk

  Summer, Thinking, Years

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• As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you have so much less time to develop as an artist and perfect your craft. So many things today are "instant" and, that's not always a good thing.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Thinking, Artist, Perfect

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• "Dukes of Hazzard" or something you could, you know that, your work is going to be made up of that - episodic television shows. Not that I got many of them, but that was where I - but actually oddly enough though, they were teaching camera terminology at the same time in this acting class, so I actually was able to understand what rack focus and whip pan and all that stuff meant.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Teaching, Class, Focus

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.

  Bassem Youssef

  Country, Sarcasm, Government

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• There are some incredible television shows. It seems a sort of succumbed place to be. At the moment, I'm quite happy sort of flitting from place-to-place. I wouldn't want to relocate from where I am right now in terms of where I live.

  Simon Pegg

  Television, Want, Incredibles

  Source: 411mania.com

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• You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

  Ice Cube

  Writing, Bigger And Better Things, Waiting

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Team, Mean, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Movies that I remember working on, or things that I remember working on, are things that took years of struggle and strife to get them off the ground or get them in front of the public. You don't have that kind of strife or whatever with a television show. It has an automatic platform. You go in, you do your job, and then it goes on air, and that's that.

  Brady Corbet

  Jobs, Struggle, Air

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

  Hiro Murai

  Character, The End Of The Day, Television

  "Q&A: Atlanta Director Hiro Murai On Working With Donald Glover, Dream Logic, And That 'Black Justin Bieber' Episode". Interview with Eric Ducker, www.mtv.com. October 4, 2016.

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