Television Quotes
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I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.
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Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
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I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.
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One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.
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Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
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Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.
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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
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I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.
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There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
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There was only so much television you could do.
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In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
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I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.
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I grew up in front of a TV.
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After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
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Bob Hope was not a television pioneer. He didn't learn his lines. If you don't learn your lines, I don't take you seriously. We never had a (cue) card.
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I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.
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I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
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If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.
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Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
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People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.
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Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
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I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people. There can be no cause or grievance that could ever justify such unspeakable violence. Indeed, such an attack is an assault not only on the targets but an offense against the freedom and rights of all civilized nations.
