Television Quotes
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Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
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The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
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Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.
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When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.
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Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
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I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.
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The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.
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If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
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I think that as television is evolving, the line between TV and film is becoming more and more blurred. This is both a good and bad thing.
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The problem with television isn't the number of horizontal scanning lines. It's the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors.
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I'm a TV man, not a money man.
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To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.
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Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
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Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
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I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
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It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.
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I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.
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My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.
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If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
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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.
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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.
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Before I started on 'Borgen', people introduced me to some great American box-sets to convince me that TV could be good. I now watch them all the time. Amy Poehler is very funny in 'Parks and Recreation' and 'In Treatment,' with Gabriel Byrne, is also really good.
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When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.
