Television Quotes - Page 11

• Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

  James Badge Dale

  Actors, Drowning, Young

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• There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

  Tim DeKay

  Somewhere Else, Two, Film And Television

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

  Carson Daly

  Reality, Idols, Watches

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• I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.

  Brad Garrett

  Thinking, Bored, Schedules

  "Brad Garrett Gives Us the Goods on 'Til Death". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 16, 2008.

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• You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Habit, Knows

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Self, Trying

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• There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

  Joe Dante

  Mean, Differences, Littles

  "Joe Dante Talks Making 'The Hole' & Updates Status On Future Films 'Monster Love,' 'Paris, I'll Kill You' & More". Interview with Benjamin Wright, www.indiewire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  Viola Davis

  Queens, Numbers, Long

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• Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

  Patrick Dempsey

  People, Sometimes, Storyline

  "‘Parenthood’: Behind Adam And Kristina’s Season 4 Cancer Battle With Peter Krause". Interview with Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

  Paul Daniels

  Tv Shows, Majority, Tvs

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• I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

  Sam Donaldson

  Years, Age, East

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• I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one.

  Tommy Davidson

  Clubs, Concerts, Halls

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• Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

  Jenna Elfman

  Pain, Thinking, Needs

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

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• I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

  Ricky Jay

  Thinking, People, Shows

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• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Montel Williams

  Educational, Media, Fcc

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

  Jenna Fischer

  Eight, Months, Sometimes

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• Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

  Louise Fletcher

  Drama, Thinking, Cameras

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

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• I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.

  Brad Grey

  Dream, Children, Growing Up

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• I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

  Mamie Gummer

  Growing Up, Air, Mary

  "Emily Owens, M.D. Star Mamie Gummer Reveals Her Mom's (Meryl Streep!) Movies That Make Her Laugh, Cry, and Watch Again and Again". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Glasses, People, House

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• I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

  Gale Gordon

  Thinking, Perfect, Lines

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• The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a lot to learn. That's why I've been on TV 16 years - not because I'm the greatest actress, but because I need the money.

  Marla Gibbs

  Years, Community, Needs

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• Television is much more difficult because at every moment, the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You’re in a constant debate with a gun to your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it’s hard to win the arguments.

  Judd Apatow

  Gun, Winning, Belief

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.

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• Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

  Ken Auletta

  People, Watches, Diversion

  "Can Aereo Disrupt the TV Business?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2013.

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