Series Quotes - Page 2

• I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

  Denis Leary

  Writing, Actors, Television

  "Denis Leary on 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' comedy, and life after 'Rescue Me'". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.ifc.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

  Michael Landon

  Successful, Three, Want

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• Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

  Ann Landers

  Sacrifice, Class, Manners

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• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  Gary Ross

  Gratitude, Book, Kids

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• I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

  Kristen Stewart

  Character, Long, Actors

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Happiness, Joy

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A series is filled with compromises.

  William Shatner

  Compromise, Filled

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• I think it's just a lot more pressure to make the scenes work when you're doing a film, because when you're doing a series you feel like, I have so many scenes, so many episodes, so if I don't get it exactly right this time, I have another scene later. You feel less pressure.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Thinking, Pressure, Film

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

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• In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Artist, Men, Mad

  "Salman Rushdie says TV dramas comparable to novels". www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2011.

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• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

  Sivananda

  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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• If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

  Tom Seaver

  Winning, United States, Vietnam

  "Big Sexy Does the Impossible" by Matthew Hoh, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2016.

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• I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

  Portia de Rossi

  Acting, Downtown, Driving

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

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• I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

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• It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Two, Fans

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• I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

  Mark Skousen

  Book, Fall, Winning

  "Positive or Negative about the Stock Market?". www.nasdaq.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

  Jon Stewart

  Swings, Ideas, Balance

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

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• The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

  Arthur Miller

  Real, Feelings, Cost

  "Tv's custom-tailored 'salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

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• A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, World, Trophies

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• Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Men, Ideas, Males

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• The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top the MTV series 'Bromance,' with Brody Jenner and his search for a new BFF.

  Rob Sheffield

  Bff, Mtv, Names

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• Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

  Jane Seymour

  Art, Character, Television

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• You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

  Tom Selleck

  Tvs, Grew Up, Knows

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• My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Father, Blue

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• Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

  Curt Schilling

  Sports, Spring, Games

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• There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fun, Games, Clothes

  "Interview / Salman Rushdie Is Not Afraid". Interview with Gidi Weitz, www.haaretz.com. October 14, 2011.

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