Television Quotes - Page 27

• Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.

  Billy Graham

  Technology, Thinking, World

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

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• I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

  Shiri Appleby

  Age, Directors, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  People, Watches, Exciting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Unions, Hyper

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

  Tom Lehrer

  Mean, Laughing, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Stuff, Offensive

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Waiting, Paper

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Want, Screws

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Drama, People, Adults

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Home, People, Watches

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Careers, Actors, Goes On

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mean, Independent, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then they can all shoot up, and everybody has cigarettes in their nostrils and their ears. They don't care. So yeah, television is amazing right now.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Care, Tvs

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.

  Willie Geist

  Morning, Coffee, Believe

  Source: on.today.com

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• Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

  David Strathairn

  Library, Film, Modern

  "Interview with David Strathairn of The Whistleblower". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. July 21, 2011.

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• In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

  Vince Gilligan

  Honesty, Writing, Made

  Source: www.gq.com

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• TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

  Vince Gilligan

  Running, Interesting, Tvs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.

  David Hasselhoff

  Fun, Mistake, People

  Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. September 20, 2011.

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• I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

  David Duchovny

  Character, Differences, Two

  "David Duchovny Talks GOATS, CALIFORNICATION, Working in TV Versus Film and Possible Future THE X-FILES Movies". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 11, 2012.

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• I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

  Christopher Lee

  Cameras, Opera, Radio

  "Listen Back To A 1990 Interview With Actor Christopher Lee". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. June 12, 2015.

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• It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television.

  Chaz Bundick

  Mistake, People, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

  Glenn Howerton

  Drama, Play, Entertainment

  "EXCLUSIVE: Glenn Howerton Reminds Us Why It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 05, 2007.

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• Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

  Carl Honore

  Reading, Making Love, Cooking

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic medium.

  Eli Wallach

  Art, Needs, Calendars

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• I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

  Steven Moffat

  Strong Women, Character, Ideas

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