Television Quotes - Page 26

• I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.

  William Shatner

  New York, Jobs, Couple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Stars, Years

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Talking, Miracle

  Source: collider.com

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• I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

  Nick Offerman

  Action, Honest, Whole

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

  Candice Patton

  African American, Roles, Landscape

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

  Ian Mckellen

  Storytelling, Form, Exaggerated

  Source: collider.com

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• I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

  Chris Pratt

  Thinking, Stories, Mediums

  Source: collider.com

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• The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

  Lucy Liu

  Character, Thinking, Perception

  "Lucy Liu’s Independent Woman". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Obviously, comedy, or art in general, or television, or whatever you want to call it's all subjective. But I do like to know what people are thinking. I don't know how long I'll keep doing that. As it goes on and on, I might become more fearful of it. For the time being, I'm not opposed to reading what people write.

  Charlie Day

  Art, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.

  Courtney Love

  Regret, Taken, Thinking

  Interview with Jemima Kirke, mag.citizensofhumanity.com.

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• My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

  Alain Resnais

  Firsts, Film, Reactions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

  Anjelica Huston

  Book, Watches, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

  Jessica Valenti

  Party, Commitment, College

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• My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

  Maria Semple

  Tvs, Interest

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• Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

  Ingrid Law

  Kids, Adults, Watches

  Ingrid Law (2008). “Savvy”, p.86, Penguin

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• Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.

  Ann Sothern

  Watches, Actresses, April

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• Sesame Street is the epitome of children’s television. It has continued to maintain the successful structure that was established in the beginning. Through it’s amazing research department, teaching has been made fun. This, the heart and humor works for children and adults alike, that’s why I’m very honored to be a part of it.

  Kevin Clash

  Fun, Children, Teaching

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• It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Media, People, Telephones

  "Shaq's Social Media Guru Shares Her Secrets". Interview with Sam Laird, mashable.com. December 1, 2011.

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• In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Drama, Years

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.

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• Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Thinking, Novelists

  YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"George R.R. Martin", www.youtube.com. August 06, 2011.

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• I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.

  Andy Rooney

  Ideas, Terrible Events, Evil People

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• Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

  Lauren Zalaznick

  Value Systems, Values, Conscience

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• Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Ends, Asks

  Gore Vidal, Donald Weise (1999). “Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings”

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• Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.141, Odyssey Editions

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