Television Quotes - Page 14

• Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

  Drew Houston

  Mean, Data, Car

  "How Did This 28-Year-Old Frat Boy End Up Worth $600 Million? A Dropbox FAQ". Interview with Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

  John Michael Higgins

  Missing, Film And Television, Sometimes

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• I was on 'Desperate Housewives' and that was my crash course on being on national television topless. Also, I do what I can in between scenes: push-ups, a little free weights. I knew going in it would be a big part of the show.

  Josh Henderson

  Would Be, Weight, Littles

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• I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

  Tricia Helfer

  Ignorant, Age, Culture

  "Tricia Helfer Talks TRON: UPRISING and Her TNT Pilot SCENT OF THE MISSING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2012.

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• It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Kids, Years, Guy

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• Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

  Brit Hume

  Stars, Air, Luxury

  "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Directors, Actors, Film

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks FRANKIE GO BOOM, the Success of SONS OF ANARCHY, His Desire to Direct, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

  Florence Henderson

  Love Is, Flying, Done

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• I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

  Jan Hammer

  Years, Film And Television, Film

  Interview with Art Connor, www.tbolin.com. February 7, 2001.

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• We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Children, Drama, Two

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

  Tony Hale

  Rehearsal, Scripts, Shows

  "Tony Hale Talks Being a Body Man in ‘Veep’ and the Return of Buster Bluth" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

  Chanel Iman

  Design, Film Music, Want

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• I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

  Janis Ian

  Home, Nashville, Three

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• I want to make smart television.

  Michael Ironside

  Smart, Want

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• The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

  Steven Johnson

  Bottom Of The Barrel, Lame, Problem

  "'Everything Bad Is Good for You'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 24, 2005.

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• Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

  Boris Johnson

  Party, Book, Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

  Brion James

  Character, Film, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

  Brion James

  Care, Want, Stills

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• Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

  January Jones

  Men, Mad, Tvs

  "January Jones Interview: "There's nothing fun about being sweet"". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

  Kate Jackson

  Gone, Kind, Married

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• I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Reading, Care, Scripts

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• It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Important, Use, Impossible

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• Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

  Thomas Jane

  Couple, Years, Careers

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 20, 2004.

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• Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

  Eric Kripke

  Optimistic, Bunch

  "Showrunner Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, Possibly Revealing the Reason for the Blackout This Season, How Long the Search for Danny Lasts, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.

  Gayle King

  Black, Hug, Lucky

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