Television Quotes - Page 21

• I don't watch television.

  Ray Walston

  Watches

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• I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

  NeNe Leakes

  Reality, Doe, Break

  "NeNe Leakes Opens Up On Reality Television Not Being Scripted", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

  Aasif Mandvi

  Children, Making Love, Hot

  "I get to sit on the fence between cultures" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2009.

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• The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

  Anson Mount

  Cable Tv, Tvs, Programming

  "To Hell and Back with Anson Mount". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

  Leslie Moonves

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "CBS Chief isn't worried about Youtube or Google — 'as long as we get paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.

  Rodney Erickson

  Eight, Years, Lasts

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• I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

  Paul McGann

  Simple, Thinking, Talking

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• Television wasn't prestigious.

  Dorothy Malone

  Prestigious

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• I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Play, Long, Theatre

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• I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.

  Allison Williams

  Jobs, Home, Cereal

  "Newsflash: Allison Williams Has Arrived". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

  Kevin Whately

  Couple, Years, Stage Actors

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• I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Watches, Documentaries

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• My fame is due to broadcast television.

  John Hodgman

  Fame, Dues

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

  Jeremy Paxman

  Ideas, People, Machines

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

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• The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

  Galina Vishnevskaya

  Writing, Voice, Radio

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• The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

  Alexander Kluge

  Art, Decision, May

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• Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Hate, Thinking, Sight

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• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  Ed Rollins

  Political, Majority, Events

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• I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

  Billy Eichner

  New York, Children, Class

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• At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

  Ray William Johnson

  Smart, What Matters, Phones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.

  Ray William Johnson

  Fighting, Two, Steel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mistake, Thinking, Media

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• American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

  Chris Hardwick

  Office, Trying, Comedy

  "Chris Hardwick Reveals Details of BBC America Deal, How Nerdist Podcast Will Be Adapted for TV (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

  Peter Farb

  Communication, Expression, Gestures

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.236, Vintage

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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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