Television Quotes - Page 27

• 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 want to make smart television.

  Michael Ironside

  Smart, Want

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• The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

  Steven Johnson

  Bottom Of The Barrel, Lame, Problem

  "'Everything Bad Is Good for You'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 24, 2005.

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• I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

  Brion James

  Care, Want, Stills

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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 not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Reading, Care, Scripts

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• It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Important, Use, Impossible

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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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• I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's like 60 - and it doesn't work.

  Zachary Knighton

  Writing, Names, Guy

  "Happy Endings' Zachary Knighton talks comedy and T-shirts". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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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'd say without a doubt I've had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day - I haven't topped that yet.

  Julian McMahon

  Sex, Eight, Doubt

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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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• It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

  Eric Ladin

  Drama, Home, Painful Death

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• I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Writing, Average, United States

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• I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Entertainment, Grew Up, Countryside

  "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.

  Peter Krause

  Children, Home, Thinking

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

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• I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.

  Rob Kardashian

  People, Goal, World

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• I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

  Stacy Keach

  School, Kids, Security

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• There are great characters on television.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Character, Great Character

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• It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

  Prabal Gurung

  Reality, Stupidity, Trends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

  Leonard Maltin

  Today, Classic, Wonderful

  "In The Money" with Jack Cafferty, www.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

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• My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Thinking, Tape, Attention

  "SXSW ’12: Mark Mothersbaugh Confirms He’s Scoring ‘Lego,’ Talks Working On Wes Anderson’s ‘Bottle Rocket’ & More" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

  Dave Navarro

  Watches, Offensive, Viewers

  "Catching Up With Dave Navarro". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.

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• I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Two, Chocolate Ice Cream, Here I Am

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

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• I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Voice, People, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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