Tvs Quotes - Page 30

• Well, I think “likability” is an overused word. I don’t watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling. Sympathetic is a little different... Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.

  Louis C. K.

  Character, Thinking, Tv Shows

  "Louis C.K. on the Importance of Acting Like an Asshole". Interview with Steve Marsh, www.vulture.com. June 29, 2010.

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• The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware of it, and Monty Python used to be on PBS at weird hours, so I used to try to watch that. And I loved George Carlin on SNL, that was the first stand-up I ever really remember seeing on TV. And then Steve Martin. I guess I was in fifth or sixth grade when Steve Martin showed up, and he was instantly my idol. And Richard Pryor around the same time too, I sort of became aware of him, though I don't remember the first time I saw him.

  Louis C. K.

  Night, Idols, Pbs

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• Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

  Dana Gould

  Reality, Self, People

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• I was watching Batman, the TV show, on TV Land, on the cable. And Robin said to Batman, Golly, Batman! Why is the Joker so evil!? And Batman said, Careful, Robin. The criminal mind sees the world through a prism the solid citizen dare not peer through. Batman has a more nuanced worldview than the president.

  Dana Gould

  Tv Shows, Land, Evil

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• Jewish people, we don't need the money. We're doctors and lawyers. It's the Christians who can't hold a steady job and have to go on TV and ask for money.

  Andy Kindler

  Christian, Jobs, Doctors

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• Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.

  Andy Kindler

  Parks And Rec, Entertainment, Comedy

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• I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.

  Andy Kindler

  Nastiness

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• I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels.' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees.

  Felipe Esparza

  Dad, Home, Degrees

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• I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

  Frank Caliendo

  Ideas, Journalism, Default

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• Night to night, doing the clubs is a lot of fun too because you have a lot more freedom and you don't have to worry about swearing or going off the script or going long or going short. If you bomb, only a handful of people see it. On TV, a lot of people see it.

  Gary Gulman

  Fun, Night, Long

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• There are certain jokes that indicate how mainstream a comic is. If you're talking about how the side effects of drugs that they advertise on TV are worse than the actual illness they're supposed to prevent, that's like the hackiest joke out there now. If you're still doing that joke, that usually is an indicator of being mainstream, in a bad way.

  Gary Gulman

  Talking, Drug, Way

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• TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.

  Dov Davidoff

  Television, Acronyms, Strange

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 21, 2011

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• All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed.

  Chris Hardwick

  Art, Eye, Long

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• We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

  Dat Phan

  Artist, Roles, Want

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.

  Dat Phan

  Winning, Years, Tv Shows

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

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• Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Running, Long, Water

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• I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fun, Hockey, Ideas

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• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  J. B. Smoove

  Thinking, Able, Lasts

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• I mean, a lot of people don't realize it, but fashion is one of the most racial industries left out there now. Radio and music aren't. Television and movies aren't. Even commercials now are showing interracial couples. You see a lot of diversity in TV shows, but you don't see that in fashion. You think there would be some, because the consumer is of all colors and all shades. But you don't see that in fashion.

  Tyson Beckford

  Fashion, Couple, Mean

  "Tyson Beckford on Modeling, Zoolander, and Racism in the Fashion Industry". Interview with Jonathan Evans, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2014.

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• There's nothing more creative I'll ever do in my career than trying to make an hour of TV everyday.

  James Corden

  Careers, Creative, Everyday

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• In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Eight, Dancer, Ballet

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• I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.

  India de Beaufort

  Kids, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I don't really watch much TV. I watch old movies and stuff like that, so I'm not up to date. My favorite vampire movie would definitely have to be the one with Gary Oldman [Dracula].

  Steven R. McQueen

  Vampire, Watches, Stuff

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• This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can't escape it - TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It's really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?

  Jurgen Teller

  Crazy, People, Perception

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• Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.

  Michael Dibdin

  Night, Thinking, People

  Michael Dibdin (2008). “Medusa”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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