Television Quotes
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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.
Missi Pyle -
I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.
Richard O'Brien
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All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.
Ray McKinnon -
One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.
Mitch Leigh -
We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.
Errol Morris -
They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
Laurie Anderson -
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.
R. Madhavan -
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.
Tom Lehrer
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TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.
Cheyenne Kimball -
I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
Harry Dean Stanton -
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.
Stephen Sprouse -
My brother was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.
Elizabeth Crook -
I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
Mike O'Malley -
Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.
Michael J. Willett
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I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.
Dustin Hoffman -
New Year’s has never been a real holiday to me anyway. There’s no gifts, no feast, just…bad TV.
Bentley Little -
I don't have to do something I'm not comfortable with just to be on television.
Cenk Uygur -
As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen!
Merv Griffin -
I loved watching theatre, and film, and television. It was a fantastic outlet and my favourite thing to do. I can't remember the decision. It just felt like a completely natural thing... I just completely felt drawn into it and seduced by it all. I found myself going into it.
Hayley Atwell -
In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on the stage because you shoot out of order and you're working with technology.
Renee O'Connor
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With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.
Bear McCreary -
I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!
Steve Capus -
Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.
Richard N. Haass -
Television has been very kind to me, I will never knock any opportunities they give me. I've had some wonderful parts and can never be grateful enough. I've always loved doing theatre, I find it tremendously exciting. I haven't done many films but those I have done, I have loved.
Susan Hampshire