Tv Shows Quotes - Page 19

• I acted in millions of TV shows.

  Sebastian Bach

  Tvs, Shows, Millions

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• I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

  Alan Ball

  Littles, Tvs, Familiar

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• I honestly think that it automatically hurts me if I said that I supported the war in Iraq and I support the troops. That automatically kills me for getting a bunch of movies, a bunch of television shows. People don't want to hear from me.

  Drew Carey

  Hurt, War, Thinking

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

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• I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Idols, Proud, Auditions

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• I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

  George Clooney

  Tvs, Done, Film

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• It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

  Diablo Cody

  Tvs, Shows, Harder

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• I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

  Caroline Corr

  Firsts, Tvs, Remember

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May 2005.

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• I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Broken, Understanding

  "Simon Cowell is a Very Odd Boy" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

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• I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.

  Simon Cowell

  Artist, Feelings, Special

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 17, 2006.

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• I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Children, Stuff, Tvs

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• The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Simple, Understanding, Firsts

  "Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad". Interview with Jason Cranfordteague, www.wired.com. July 29, 2011.

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• I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

  Dominic West

  Actors, Tvs, Bigs

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

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• I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

  Nicholas Lea

  Care, Matter, Tvs

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

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• I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

  Jorge Garcia

  Three, Stories, Television

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

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• I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon

  Charlie Hunnam

  College, Tvs, Rating

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• I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

  Clay Aiken

  Special, Tvs, Bigs

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• I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I can give you is to get your own TV show. It pays well, the hours are good, and you are famous. And eventually some very nice people will give you a doctorate in fine arts for doing jack squat.

  Stephen Colbert

  Art, Nice, Mean

  Stephen Colbert's Commencement Address at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, www.alternet.org. June 5, 2006.

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• Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek

  Casper Van Dien

  Stars, Growing Up, Tvs

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• If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.

  Nick Lowe

  Atheism, Unhappy, Video

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• I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

  Jerry Orbach

  Worry, Want, Tvs

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

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• Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

  Josh Charles

  Character, Tvs, Welcome

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

  Shawn Ryan

  Running, Stars, Guests

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• I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

  Allison Mack

  Years, Consistency, Three

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• If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be ‘Mad Men,’ treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.

  Alison Lundergan Grimes

  Men, Mad, Would Be

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• Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  "Living In The Present Is A Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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