Television Quotes - Page 24

• When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

  Candice Accola

  Relationship, Sunshine, Work Out

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• I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about "the character," and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.

  John Barrowman

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, tv.avclub.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.

  Joy Behar

  Fall, Play, Two

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• My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

  Troian Bellisario

  Mom, Dad, Successful

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

  Bob Barker

  Country, Decision, Finals

  "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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• I humbly apologise for reality Television.

  Cilla Black

  Reality, Reality Television

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• But reality television is here to stay.

  Cilla Black

  Reality, Reality Television

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• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Radio, Corporations, Majority

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• The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

  Guy Burgess

  Media, Stories, Able

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• Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

  James Brolin

  Dream, Kids, Kansas

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• We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

  Jillian Bach

  Actors, Film, Theater

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• I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

  Julie Bowen

  Character, Opportunity, Reality

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• For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

  Kathy Bates

  Long, Challenges, Roles

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• But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

  Lake Bell

  New York, Hipster, America

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

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• Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

  Simon Baker

  Sometimes, Grind, Intensity

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

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• My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

  Steve Burns

  Children, Fantasy

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• When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

  Erin Gray

  Reality, Play, Quality

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• I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

  China Chow

  Tv Shows, Want, Tvs

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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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• Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

  Neve Campbell

  Party, Golden, Wells

  "Neve Campbell lives out a dream with "The Company". Interview with Ben Nuckols, www.today.com. January 8, 2004.

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• It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

  Tom Conti

  Fun, Theatre, Want

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

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• There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

  Tom Conti

  People, Film And Television, Frustrating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every "Idol" winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Stars, Mean

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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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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