Television Quotes
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I like television medium because it feels like we're doing a play, and I learned how to act in theater school, so that comes very naturally to me, this format. I like that people can laugh out loud when we're working. I like that we can make mistakes, unlike being onstage, where you can't.
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Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.
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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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Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
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I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.
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I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
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Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.
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I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.
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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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If I'm working on the Internet, you know, it's different than working on television.
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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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If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.
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If a day goes by that I'm not on television, I don't look at it as a lesser day, nor do I look at changing from a news world to a sports world as any sort of step other than a step in a new direction.
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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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There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
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But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.
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You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television or film or something, you're not 100 percent sure if what you wrote is actually going to work.
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I enjoy working on a series and having a long stretch of time to get to know and connect with my cast and crew. It also gives me the ability to play a character over the span of countless hours of television.
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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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I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.
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Don’t stand in front of the TV when other people are watching it.
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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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Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.
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The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
