Television Shows Quotes

• In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.

  Jon Stewart

  Creating, People, Together

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• I would love to do a television show in New York City.

  Ellen Barkin

  New York, Cities, Television

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• Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.

  Bil Keane

  Names, Use, Done

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• Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

  Norman Lear

  Couple, Goes On, Television

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

  Logan Lerman

  Acting, Television, Shows

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• On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

  Eva Longoria

  Crazy, Vacation, Three

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• I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.

  Norm MacDonald

  Independent, Technology, Style

  Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2010.

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• You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

  Keanu Reeves

  Jobs, Done, Television

  "Our Interview with Keanu Reeves, the No-Kidding Digital Cinema Historian and Filmmaker". Interview with Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 12, 2012.

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• 'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

  Jesse Ventura

  Television, My Favorite, Restless

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• I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

  Orson Welles

  Television, Laziness, Late

  "Orson Welles' criticisms of fellow actors and directors found on lost tapes" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2013.

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• Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Past, Television

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

  Jim Henson

  Children, Quality, Needs

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• Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

  Jennifer Garner

  Growing Up, Television, Planes

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• I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

  Pamela Anderson

  Careers, Television, Want

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• Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

  Dirk Benedict

  Television, Minutes, Time Is Money

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• Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Pbs, Cooking

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• Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

  Les Brown

  Art, Two, Television

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• When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Country, United States

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• I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stars, Dad, Self Esteem

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• I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'

  Diablo Cody

  Writing, Television, Scripts

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• There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.

  Bryan Cranston

  Numbers, Marketing, Elements

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• I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Character, Thinking, Tv Shows

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• If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

  Warren Ellis

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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