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• When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

  Alan Dale

  Tv Shows, Giving, Gigs

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I thought, 'Well, if I couldn't make it...' So, I gave it to him and he got the money, the director and the cast. The biggest disappointment for me, I always wanted to play McMurphy. They got a young actor, Jack Nicholson. I thought, 'Oh God. He will be terrible.' Then I saw the picture and, of course, he was great in it! That was my biggest disappointment that turned out to be one of the things I'm most proud of because my son Michael did it. I couldn't do it, but Michael did it.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dad, Disappointment, Son

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• And often when things turn to TV series there are so many different people with different agendas that things can morph. And so, you know, that was why having the executive producer title was important to me because even if I was the star and I had a concern, you know, that concern would only go so far. But having the title of executive producer actually makes them have to actually listen to me complain.

  Debra Messing

  Stars, People, Important

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I am a fan of all of the same shows that David just listed. And then I also have a weird obsession with Court TV, which is now truTV - I don't know if you know that. Yeah they changed names. I don't know why they did that but they did. It was a little disconcerting to me at first. But I've gotten over it.

  Debra Messing

  Names, Fans, Littles

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• And I don't know where to find Ashley Danfield and all the other lovely commentators who show me live courtroom trials. To me, you know, I'm obsessed with it. Like I think maybe if I wasn't an actor I'd be a litigator. But, you know, it's always just shocking to see what happens in real life because most of the things that you see on those trials if you tried to write them into a TV series you would say oh gosh, no one would believe that would ever happen. But yet they always do in real life.

  Debra Messing

  Real, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Several months ago, out of the blue, a company named "Cingular" started sending me bills. I had never heard of Cingular, and I honestly did not know what these bills were for, so I put them in the pile where I keep documents that I intend to scrutinize more carefully later on, after my death. Then I started seeing TV commercials for Cingular, but of course they did not make it clear what Cingular is, because the First Rule of Modern Advertising is: "Never reveal what you are advertising."

  Dave Barry

  Blue, Bills, Months

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• Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.

  Dave Barry

  Islands, Tv Shows, Ordinary

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• If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

  David Mamet

  Guides, One Sentence, Sentences

  David Mamet (1988). “Speed-the-plow”, Methuen Publishing

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• Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.

  Mort Sahl

  Night, Feet, Guy

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• TV is the rat race of the century.

  Groucho Marx

  Race, Rats, Century

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• Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.

  Louise Hay

  Children, Lying, Parent

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• In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.

  James Poniewozik

  Reality, Careers, Choices

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• Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Leader, Visionaries, Occupation

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• Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Children, Book, Tv Shows

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• If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer to your kids, there ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front of a computer or a TV, you are abandoning them. You are abandoning them because they are sitting on a couch or a floor and they may be hugging a dog, but they ain't hugging you.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dog, Kids, Giving

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• The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

  Sam Ewing

  Ideas, Brain, Sound

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• I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

  Jess Walter

  Teaching, Humble, Opportunity

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• TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.

  James Van Praagh

  Responsibility, People, Television

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

  Adam Carolla

  Reading, Book, Creative

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.

  Dave Attell

  Choices, Actors, Matter

  Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.

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• When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I'm doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years.

  Naomi Campbell

  Years, People, Television

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I always wanted to work with a TV. So I'm open.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Wanted

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an "ass." Unless you're British, calling someone an ass really doesn't work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Character, Tv Shows, Calling

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2005.

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• Nothing continues indefinitely. But I think there is always going to be a place for the home TV and there is always going to be a place for the smartphone.

  Wyc Grousbeck

  Home, Thinking, Smartphones

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• If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Weed, Smart, Tv Shows

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patric Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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