Television Quotes - Page 16

• 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 have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

  Karen Gillan

  Country, London, Awareness

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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 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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• 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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• Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

  Merv Griffin

  Kings, Doubt, Roger

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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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• I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

  Sasha Alexander

  Character, Stories, Rehearsal

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• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Dream, Enough Time, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!

  Michael Easton

  Son, Thinking, Games

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• I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Successful

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

  Robert Englund

  Stars, Trying, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

  Michael Fassbender

  Jobs, Age, London

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Media, Government

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• I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

  David Bowie

  Art, Media, Giving

  Song: China Girl, Album: Let's Dance, 1983

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• She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Media, Age

  Song: All The Wrong Reasons

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• I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'

  David Cassidy

  Horse, Reading, Passion

  "The perfect racehorse" by David Cassidy, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2002.

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• I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Conservative, Film

  "Jane Campion Says Feature Films Can Be Conservative". www.theguardian.com. October 09, 2012.

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• I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

  Michael Cunningham

  Movie Love, Narrative, Kind

  "Michael Cunningham: A life in writing" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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• I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.

  Doug E. Fresh

  New York, Clubs, Coming Out

  "Doug E. Fresh talks 'teach me how to dougie', Pharrell collabo" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 7, 2010.

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• I don't watch a lot of television.

  Edie Falco

  Watches

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• The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

  Lauren Graham

  Trying

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