Television Quotes
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Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?
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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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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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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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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive to make.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
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You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.
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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 had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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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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I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
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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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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
