Tvs Quotes - Page 27

• It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?

  Tom Hanks

  Media, Names, Track

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• I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.

  Bill Hicks

  War, Believe, Long

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• The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.

  Mary Schmich

  Feel Better, Soul, Done

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• The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.

  Reed Hastings

  Tv Shows, Netflix, Watches

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• Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

  Jason Alexander

  Stars, Looks, Television

  "THE CRAFTSMAN - For JASON ALEXANDER, life after Seinfeld is a lot like before: It's about the work". Interview with Rob Kendt, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.

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• In high school, I got picked on. It's funny that I got tormented for what I'm doing now - the acting thing. People would see me in a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day at school. Kids would say, 'Hi, TV Boy.' They heckled. I never got beat up.

  Jason Biggs

  School, Kids, Boys

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

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• The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.

  Joey Bishop

  Morning, Home, Night

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• People see me on TV and I'm this calm, level headed guy. Honestly, that's the furthest thing from who I am. For a long time I struggled with anger and stress. It was killing me, figuratively and literally.

  Tom Bergeron

  Stress, Who I Am, Long

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

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• Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the funniest shows on TV and I was a little intimidated working with those guys 'cause you're in a sound booth by yourself and they're all in a room in Atlanta.

  David Cross

  Atlanta, Aqua, Guy

  "David Cross from Arrested Development". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 1, 2004.

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• There's going to be a new cable-TV channel for dogs. Dogs don't even watch TV. But the schedule came out today. And they've got great shows, like Barks & Recreation and Game of Bones.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dog, Games, Today

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• These days, young people watch TV on smartphones and computers. Young people with an actual TV set are harder to find than a picture of Anthony Weiner with his clothes on.

  Craig Ferguson

  Smartphones, Clothes, People

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• A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Years, People

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• I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

  Craig Ferguson

  United States, Want, Citizenship

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• Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me.

  Lucy Hale

  Writing, Important, Lines

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• It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

  William Hague

  Simple, Giving, Matter

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• Being on TV has changed my life because I get lots of free stuff!

  Kim Kardashian

  Stuff, Changed, Changed My Life

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• I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.

  Artie Lange

  Careers, Two, Mad

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• The bottom line is that TV can either be a great asset to your career, or if you're a complete ass that people hate, it can be the final nail in your coffin.

  Bret Michaels

  Hate, Careers, People

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• For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Character, Years, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Marathon, Discovering, Keep Going

  Source: collider.com

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• The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy basically.

  James Bobin

  Children, Treasure, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• You try to follow suit and the directors I work with, like Sidney Lumet (on film in Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and TV in 100 Centre Street) who thinks actors hung the moon, thinks they can do anything, but he also works really quickly, the same like Clint Eastwood, and so you better also do your homework, you know?

  Amy Ryan

  Thinking, Moon, Devil

  Source: collider.com

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• I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Pertinent Questions, Brain, Film

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.

  Taylor Swift

  Acting, Video, Roles

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Views, Blood, Talking

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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