Television Quotes - Page 10

• Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

  Simon Baker

  Sometimes, Grind, Intensity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

  Steve Burns

  Children, Fantasy

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• Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

  Steven Bochco

  Stories, Film, Novel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Reading, Talking, Ideas

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• I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

  China Chow

  Tv Shows, Want, Tvs

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• I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.

  Emma Caulfield

  Thinking, Long, Community

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• Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

  Gary Coleman

  Fun, Crazy, May

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• I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Pay, Host

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• When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Finding Yourself, Different, Shooting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

  Ricky Jay

  Thinking, People, Shows

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• Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

  Neve Campbell

  Party, Golden, Wells

  "Neve Campbell lives out a dream with "The Company". Interview with Ben Nuckols, www.today.com. January 8, 2004.

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• I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

  Robert Carlyle

  Balls, Scripts, Relentless

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

  Tom Conti

  Fun, Theatre, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

  Tom Conti

  People, Film And Television, Frustrating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

  James Badge Dale

  Actors, Drowning, Young

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• Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every "Idol" winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Stars, Mean

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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• In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great.

  Tim DeKay

  Art, Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

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• There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

  Tim DeKay

  Somewhere Else, Two, Film And Television

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

  Carson Daly

  Reality, Idols, Watches

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• I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

  Christopher Darden

  Girlfriend, Believe, Actors

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• We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

  Dana Delany

  Mother, Wife, Three

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• You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Habit, Knows

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Past, Stories, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

  Gavyn Davies

  Diversity, Would Be, Radio

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