Television Quotes
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I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.
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Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long enough to know that it won't always just come to me; sometimes I have to go get it.
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Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
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I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
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Can't sleep unless the TV is on.
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Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
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It's so important... to have a variety of representation on television.
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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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When I first started making films 30 years ago, people would comment that I was a woman. But strangely, when I was in television, no one ever mentioned that I was a woman. Maybe it was because television and film were different. There were more women working in television than men. There was no split in terms of work - everyone was considered equal.
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The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
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It's funny that and the same statement Barack Obama made when he's talking about Republicans and the Iranians, he's talking to Republicans through the television. He said, if any of you are watching this, you need to think about who you're hurting.
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When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don't mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV.
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Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.
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CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.
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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
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It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.
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I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.
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Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
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Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.
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A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.
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Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.
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Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.
