Steven Moffat (Steven William Moffat) Quotes

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Steven Moffat

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• I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Start

• I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Television

• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

  

  Kajol
  • Great
  • Live
  • Change

• I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Life
  • Television
  • Personal

• But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Stars

• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • Democratic

• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Different
  • Science
  • Political

• Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Time
  • May
  • Fun

• We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Way
  • Television
  • April

• I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Father
  • First
  • Television

• I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Success
  • Television

• I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Wish
  • Priorities

• I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Water
  • Security
  • Priorities

• Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Hard
  • Making

• I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Greek
  • Cook
  • Dish

• If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Military
  • Choose

• Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul virtuous. God, who rewards thoughts, words, and deeds, will give good in return for even a small thing which you gladly suffer for His sake.

  

  Gennadius of Constantinople
  • Giving
  • Suffering
  • inspirational

• I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.

  

  Elizabeth Keckley
  • Violence
  • President
  • Grief

• I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Television
  • Making
  • Priorities