Television Shows Quotes - Page 9

• I've been trying to figure out what moment The Lone Ranger came into our lives. We've always just known about The Lone Ranger. It's common knowledge. I don't ever remember watching the television show.

  James Badge Dale

  Trying, Television, Common

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very specific fraction of the audience. It's not the general audience, so you can't get too crazy listening to just that. That's not representative, but they are the most dedicated.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Crazy, People, Listening

  Source: collider.com

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• When I sign on to a television show, I have to love that show and character so much, but this [Mistresses] was in and out, for seven episodes. And it was nice to be able to make some money again because I hadn't work in a year and a half. There were a lot of pluses.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Nice, Character, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Reading, Trying, Momentum

  Source: collider.com

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• It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.

  Bob Hope

  Next Day, People, Television

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• First of all, directing was the most incredible experience. When you run a television show, directing is something that not many people actually get the time to do because you're so consumed with everything that's going on. You can't just disappear.

  J.H. Wyman

  Running, People, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

  Desi Arnaz

  Successful, Elements, Television

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.

  Eric Balfour

  Directors, Television, Week

  Source: collider.com

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• With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.

  Alfred Gough

  Fighting, Battle, Television

  "Al Gough and Miles Millar Exclusive Interview CHARLIE'S ANGELS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I love my iPad. I'll see television shows that I have missed and I'll download them through iTunes. If there is an older movie that I want to watch right away, I can download that movie and watch it.

  Joel Silver

  Ipads, Watches, Television

  "Producer Joel Silver Exclusive Interview: Discusses UNKNOWN, LOGAN’S RUN, Berlin, VOD, Home Video Sales, 3D, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 17, 2011.

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• When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see what they're giving you, so you try to write back to that, and then they play with that, and you get a sense of what is going on. That's just a natural way in which TV series usually work.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Writing, Play, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

  Christopher Titus

  Fishing, Television, Next

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

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• I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Children, Writing

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• When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm doing the morning show here in Chicago 5 days a week, and I have the syndicated radio show that's been going on now for several years. In addition we are in the midst of taping 13 episodes of a television show-The Legends of Jazz: The Masters of jazz on PBS-TV.

  Ramsey Lewis

  Morning, Men, Thinking

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• My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

  John Sebastian

  Art, Father, Educational

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.

  Johnny Carson

  Believe, Tired, Looks

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• The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary government, worldwide democracy and the triumph of reason over tribal loyalties, political doctrines and individual ambition. In other words, it requires that we all live in the world described by the "Star Trek" television shows.

  James Lileks

  Loyalty, Stars, Ambition

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• The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.

  Rod Serling

  Expression, Essence, Differences

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that somebody's a bad person in a movie or in a television show or something about that, you say they sell drugs or they use drugs.

  Carl Hart

  Law, Drug, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Nice, Years, People

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.

  Dayna Devon

  Jobs, Years, People

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• I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Team, Mean, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

  Ice Cube

  Writing, Bigger And Better Things, Waiting

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• There are some incredible television shows. It seems a sort of succumbed place to be. At the moment, I'm quite happy sort of flitting from place-to-place. I wouldn't want to relocate from where I am right now in terms of where I live.

  Simon Pegg

  Television, Want, Incredibles

  Source: 411mania.com

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• People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.

  Bassem Youssef

  Country, Sarcasm, Government

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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