Television Quotes
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I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
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Every city you go to has television and radio talk shows that are dying to give young comics a showcase. They all want to be able to say that so-and-so started here, got his first break on this show.
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When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.
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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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And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
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I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.
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Whenever you're doing film for television and you look at the budget that you have, which is much more constricted than a movie budget, you think, "God, are they going to be able to do what they say they are?"
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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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I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
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People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.
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I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.
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Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
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More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.
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I feel like I'm still learning the ropes of how television works. Obviously I have good folks surrounding me on different shows. It's funny because sometimes in film I'm sort of the third guy to the left, you can be as insane as you want to be as that guy.
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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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We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.
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Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
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I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.
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The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
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When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
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I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
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Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.
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I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.
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Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.
