Television Quotes - Page 17

• Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Shooting, Mouths, Radio

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• I don't watch a lot of television.

  Edie Falco

  Watches

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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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• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  Nadia Giosia

  Trying, Entertainment, Lifestyle

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• I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.

  Nina Garcia

  Mom, Office, Roles

  "Nina Garcia Is Celebrating Her Birthday With ‘An Extra Helping Of Dessert’" By Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Trying, Guarantees, Stuff

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• Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

  Drew Houston

  Mean, Data, Car

  "How Did This 28-Year-Old Frat Boy End Up Worth $600 Million? A Dropbox FAQ". Interview with Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

  John Michael Higgins

  Missing, Film And Television, Sometimes

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• I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

  Tricia Helfer

  Ignorant, Age, Culture

  "Tricia Helfer Talks TRON: UPRISING and Her TNT Pilot SCENT OF THE MISSING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2012.

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• It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Kids, Years, Guy

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• We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Children, Drama, Two

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

  Chanel Iman

  Design, Film Music, Want

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• I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

  Janis Ian

  Home, Nashville, Three

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• Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

  Boris Johnson

  Party, Book, Writing

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

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• I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

  Brion James

  Character, Film, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

  January Jones

  Men, Mad, Tvs

  "January Jones Interview: "There's nothing fun about being sweet"". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

  Kate Jackson

  Gone, Kind, Married

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• I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.

  Gayle King

  Black, Hug, Lucky

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• Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

  Joanna Kerns

  These Days, Wells

  "'Growing Pains' Cast Reunion". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 7, 2006.

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• There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

  Bill Kurtis

  Diversity, Age, Rooms

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• You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

  Callie Khouri

  Like You, Accepted, Made

  "'Nashville’s' Callie Khouri: 'Watching two women go at it is boring'" by Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 21, 2012.

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• I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

  Keith Moon

  Believe, Persons, I Can

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

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• Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

  Alexander Kluge

  People, Details, Looks

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• People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

  David E. Kelley

  Home, Night, People

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• As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It’s the reason why people love Harry Potter. Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you’re a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, Character, Kids

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Sex in Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.bookish.com. November 21, 2011.

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