Television Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

  Carson Daly

  Reality, Idols, Watches

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• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Past, Stories, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

  Gavyn Davies

  Diversity, Would Be, Radio

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• My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

  Joe Dante

  Fun, Home, Thinking

  "24 hours of horror with Joe Dante". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

  Lesley-Anne Down

  Naked, Body, Problem

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• I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

  Michael Dorn

  Stars, Character, Years

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

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• I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

  Sam Donaldson

  Years, Age, East

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• I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one.

  Tommy Davidson

  Clubs, Concerts, Halls

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• Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

  Chris Elliott

  Accepted, Wanted, General Public

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• New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

  Willow Bay

  Media, Challenges, Radio

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• There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

  Jenna Elfman

  Men, Thinking, Roles

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

  Jenna Fischer

  Eight, Months, Sometimes

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• I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

  Jenna Fischer

  College, Play, Focus

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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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'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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• 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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• 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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• If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

  David Bowie

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Afraid, Album: Heathen, 2002

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• People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

  Victoria Abril

  People, Misery, Shows

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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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