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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I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.
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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 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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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'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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People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.
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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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Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
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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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I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
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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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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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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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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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Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.
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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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The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
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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'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
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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 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.
