Television Quotes
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I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
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I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
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The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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It's a sci-fi show on network television, and everybody knows that it's an amazing feat that we've been on for so many years. The fans, the press and everyone has been so incredibly kind and so incredibly supportive that we feel like it's a success, in any way, shape or form. It's an expensive canvas.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
