Television Quotes - Page 12

• I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

  Karen Gillan

  Country, London, Awareness

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• I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

  Mamie Gummer

  Growing Up, Air, Mary

  "Emily Owens, M.D. Star Mamie Gummer Reveals Her Mom's (Meryl Streep!) Movies That Make Her Laugh, Cry, and Watch Again and Again". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Glasses, People, House

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• I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.

  Brad Garrett

  Thinking, Bored, Schedules

  "Brad Garrett Gives Us the Goods on 'Til Death". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 16, 2008.

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• I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

  David Ginola

  Moving, Careers, Film

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• When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

  Erin Gray

  Reality, Play, Quality

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• I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

  Gale Gordon

  Thinking, Perfect, Lines

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• The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a lot to learn. That's why I've been on TV 16 years - not because I'm the greatest actress, but because I need the money.

  Marla Gibbs

  Years, Community, Needs

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• Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

  Merv Griffin

  Kings, Doubt, Roger

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• Television is much more difficult because at every moment, the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You’re in a constant debate with a gun to your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it’s hard to win the arguments.

  Judd Apatow

  Gun, Winning, Belief

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.

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• Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

  Ken Auletta

  People, Watches, Diversion

  "Can Aereo Disrupt the TV Business?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Television and I grew up together.

  Roger Ailes

  Together, Grew Up, Grew

  Roger Ailes (2012). “You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are”, p.13, Crown Business

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• I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

  Sasha Alexander

  Character, Stories, Rehearsal

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• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

  Victoria Abril

  People, Misery, Shows

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• In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Dream, Enough Time, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.

  Grant Bowler

  Mean, Media, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

  Noah Emmerich

  Feedback, Middle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

  Atom Egoyan

  Home, Son, Nursing

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

  Emilio Estevez

  Thinking, Skills, Feet

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• I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Successful

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!

  Michael Easton

  Son, Thinking, Games

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• I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

  Robert Englund

  Stars, Trying, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.

  Sutton Foster

  Thinking, Voice, Amy

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• I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2011.

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