Television Quotes
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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
Paul Keating -
My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.
Missi Pyle
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I didn’t know why I was thinking about all these things—except that’s what I always did. I guess I had my own personal television in my brain. I could control whatever I wanted to watch. I could switch the channels anytime I wanted.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
Richard Lester -
I watch a lot of television. I love doing it, obviously, but I really love watching it.
Carrie Preston -
My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
Steven Moffat -
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
Bill Kraus -
But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
Tom Hanks
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With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.
Alfred Gough -
Television is a vast wasteland.
Newton N. Minow -
Please, do not adjust your television set.
Steve McManaman -
I came into reality television with MTV's show 'The Real World,' specifically the 1994 season set in San Francisco. I was glued to the Puck and Pedro drama.
Molly O'Keefe -
Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
Steven Spielberg -
We’d been going home with television every night for years, but suddenly we had reason to respect it in the morning.
Alan Sepinwall
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Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is older. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.
Elinor Guggenheimer -
On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.
George Gerbner -
As long as we believe it is food that causes us to overeat, we are lost. Television, friends, and weather seem pretty unrelated to what we eat. That’s why they have such a powerful effect on us.
Brian Wansink -
Growing up with violence, with inescapable expertly choreographed brutality in every home builds not only a kind of desensitization for it, but it also creates a market for violent entertainment by people for whom even what they see on television is not enough, is not graphic enough, is not explicit enough, and some movie productions, some big productions really cash in on that market. What is peculiar about this is that as time goes on, a greater dosage is necessary to satisfy this need.
George Gerbner -
The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
Will McDonough -
Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.
Molly O'Keefe
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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
Reed Hastings -
Television moves so fast. A series moves at such a rapid pace and things are changing, episode to episode, where you're going, "Wait, why am I doing this? This last episode, you told me I was doing this." You're shooting at a moving target.
Mike Vogel -
Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
David Jason -
Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
Carson Kressley