Television Quotes
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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.
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Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'
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I don't think Hollywood respects multi-camera television. Well, I don't think they disrespect it, but I don't think it gets respect for its artistry.
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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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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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I don't have to do something I'm not comfortable with just to be on television.
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I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.
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I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.
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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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We’d been going home with television every night for years, but suddenly we had reason to respect it in the morning.
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One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.
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When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.
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If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.
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I've done so many television pilots. I've done eleven I think and I've never had one get picked up. There was never one that I was a guest star on. It's just fascinating, but I don't think it would be fun to be recognized all the time.
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy.
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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
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I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
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I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
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Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.
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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!
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Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.
