Television Quotes - Page 22

• My real life’s not like the fantasy Tom Ford world – with naked girls pouring perfume everywhere. It’s more staying in and watching Friends on television.

  Tom Ford

  Girl, Real, Naked

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• Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Hate, Thinking, Sight

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• I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.

  John Legend

  Football, Games, Focus

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• Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, Magic Realism, Age

  "Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.

  Ronda Rousey

  Reality, People, Principles

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Dvds, Pay, Driving

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

  Billy Eichner

  New York, Children, Class

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• At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

  Ray William Johnson

  Smart, What Matters, Phones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.

  Ray William Johnson

  Fighting, Two, Steel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  Yunjin Kim

  New York, Growing Up, Events

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• The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.

  Jeffrey Pierce

  Photography, Successful, Guy

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• I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mistake, Thinking, Media

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• American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

  Chris Hardwick

  Office, Trying, Comedy

  "Chris Hardwick Reveals Details of BBC America Deal, How Nerdist Podcast Will Be Adapted for TV (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

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• They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Junk, Tvs, Ninety

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• Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

  Peter Farb

  Communication, Expression, Gestures

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.236, Vintage

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• My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.

  Jake Kasdan

  Jobs, Pilots, Gigs

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

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• The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Team, Home, Important

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• I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

  Mike O'Malley

  Character, Thinking, Doe

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• By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Independent, Community, Common

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• You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

  Yul Vazquez

  Powerful, Estonia, Episodes

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• I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street.

  Graham Yost

  Believe, Thinking, Golden

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Justified’s Graham Yost on the Full House Writers’ Room and Learning to Collaborate". Interview with Mike Flaherty, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

  Graham Yost

  Thinking, Support, Fans

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• I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

  Bille August

  Four, Jerusalem, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

  Roone Arledge

  Eye, Thinking, Industry

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• Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

  Roone Arledge

  Powerful, Play, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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