Television Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

  Aaron Tveit

  Dream, Actors, Broadway

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• After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

  Nick Park

  School, Degrees, Film And Television

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• I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

  Maggie Q

  Quality, Way, Film

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• I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

  Matthew Rhys

  Thinking, Way, Shots

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• At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Television Commercials, Firsts, Ninth Grade

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• Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  New York, Successful, Television Commercials

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• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.

  Maj Sjowall

  Book, Men, Directors

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• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, New York, Cities

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

  Portia de Rossi

  Girl, Actresses, Supermodel

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

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• I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

  Jimmy Smits

  Commitment, Long, Term

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

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• I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

  Shawn Ryan

  Names, Want, Weak

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• I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

  John Slattery

  Trying, Scene, Given

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

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• What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

  Blake Shelton

  Country, Needs, Magazines

  "Basic Blake". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Thinking, Diversity, People

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

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• I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Differences, People, World

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• On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Epic, Men, Air

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• It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

  Katey Sagal

  Blessing, Long, Able

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Believe, Media

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• Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

  K. D. Lang

  Radio, Tvs, Vehicle

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• There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Mean, Impact, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  Hannah Simone

  Two, Political, Degrees

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

  Martha Plimpton

  Brilliant, Right Now

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• I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Thinking, Mundane

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

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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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