Tv Shows Quotes - Page 10

• Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

  Judd Gregg

  People, Tvs, Senators

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• I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Back Alleys, Egypt, Pyramids

  "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

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• In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.

  Reed Hastings

  Believe, Long, Opera

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• The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.

  Josh Gad

  Israel, Hands, Guy

  "The Tavis Smiley Show', www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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• But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

  Rob Brezsny

  Cancer, News Stories, Soul

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.61, Frog Books

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• Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

  Stephen Collins

  Acting, Tvs, Mediocre

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• When I first was on Big Time Rush, the TV show, I did a lot of silly things. Among the first episodes that came out, my buddies wanted to have a viewing party, so we turned it into a drinking game. Every time I did something dumb, we took a shot. We were hammered!

  James Maslow

  Silly, Party, Drinking

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• It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

  Peter Bart

  Years, Hollywood, Corporations

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• Lucky me, the producer was arriving, and when he saw me [dressed as an old lady], he didn't know what to think. I told him, 'I'm your grandma here's your lunch, honey,' and I got my first TV show in Mexico.

  Omar Chaparro

  Grandma, Thinking, Lunch

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.

  Gail Porter

  Mother, Home, Proud

  "Gail Porter: My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

  Jack Osbourne

  Real, Mind, One Day

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.

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• I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.

  Andy Griffith

  Guitar, Years, Play

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

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• I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Reality, Idols, Tvs

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• By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Self Esteem, Creating

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• Three, four, five years, we’re out of here. You know what I’m saying? It’s a TV show. This thing ain’t gonna last forever. No way.

  Phil Robertson

  Years, Forever, Three

  "What the Duck?" by Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Cereal, Breakfast

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

  John Landis

  Tvs, Directors, Actors

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2004.

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• Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  New Normal, September 11, Sound

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• The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.

  Charlaine Harris

  Tvs, Wonderful, Selling

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• The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with multimillion-dollar films that depict people doing terrible things to each other. If you read newspapers, you have every right to believe that Bad Nasty Things compose 90 percent of the human experience. But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

  Rob Brezsny

  Life, Children, Believe

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• Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.

  William Petersen

  First Love, Careers, Chicago

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

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• Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere players are not just aware of the camera; we mug for it.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Player, Reality, Self

  "I Tweet, Therefore I Am" by Peggy Orenstein, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2010.

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• I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.

  Morgan Saylor

  Couple, Thinking, Careers

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• I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.

  Hillary Clinton

  Book, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.elle.com

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