Television Quotes
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I watch a lot of television. I love doing it, obviously, but I really love watching it.
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Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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I'd like to start trying different fields of work. I don't want to be stuck in just comedy, and I'd be interested to try to break into the movie business because it's so much different than television.
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Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
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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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I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.
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Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.
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If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.
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I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
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I can't say I enjoy all TV ... I'm enjoying 'Six Feet' because I think it's beautifully written, and wonderfully acted and beautifully produced. I enjoy the odd piece of television.
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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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The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.
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I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.
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Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.
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Don’t stand in front of the TV when other people are watching it.
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Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
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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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I've been on television saying, "¡Vamos a la biblioteca!". That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.
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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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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.
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I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.
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When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.
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I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books...
