Tv Shows Quotes - Page 18

• Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground.

  Nestor Carbonell

  Thinking, Years, Hbo

  "Exclusive: Nestor Carbonell Talks RINGER, LOST and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.

  Janel Moloney

  Stars, Thinking, Ongoing

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• Coming back to New Girl was a real reminder of how lucky I am to be on a popular network TV show.

  Ty Simpkins

  Girl, Real, Lucky

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• Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

  Gina Bellman

  Running, Names, Firsts

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• Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

  Derek Sivers

  Successful, Years, Focus

  "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

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• As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.

  Michael Ian Black

  Years, Four, Want

  "An Interview With Michael Ian Black: "Oh, There's Plenty Of Bad Reviews On Amazon."". Interview with Jory John, www.buzzfeed.com. March 8, 2014.

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• I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.

  Julia Roberts

  Perseverance, Jobs, Odds

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• My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

  Danai Gurira

  House Of Cards, Orange, Modern Family

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• People will always want it [reality TV shows], if it's produced well and if it's telling people's stories - that's all anybody wants: to connect with another human being on a very basic level. If the stories are told well, I think it can continue and continue.

  Cat Deeley

  Thinking, Reality, People

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.

  Pamela Anderson

  Fun, Hate, Angel

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• I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fun, Book, Passion

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.

  Vin Diesel

  Trying, Tvs, Watches

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• Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Men, Tvs, I've Learned

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• I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

  Lou Reed

  Mean, Albums, World

  "Lou Reed: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

  Christina Ricci

  Successful, Years, Actors

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• Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.

  Kid Rock

  Proud, Tvs, Troops

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• A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

  Seth Rogen

  Tvs, Great Things, Constant

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• I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

  David Schwimmer

  Falling In Love, America, Interesting

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• I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Real, People

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• And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

  Dick Wolf

  Watches, Care, Tvs

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• I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

  Steven Wright

  Awards, Giving, House

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• I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.

  Bobby Darin

  Care, Tvs, Ifs

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• There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

  Louis C. K.

  Two, People, Tvs

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. May 23, 2007.

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• I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

  Pamela Anderson

  Mistake, Work Out, Captains

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• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Mean, Black And White, Tvs

  "Dan Aykroyd Talks Vodka, 'SNL' And Hellhound Blues". Interview with Kenneth Hein, www.forbes.com. February 18, 2013.

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