Television Quotes - Page 29

• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  Sally Ride

  Made, Memoir, Havens

  "A Conversation With Sally Ride; Painful Questions From an Ex-astronaut" by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2003.

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• I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

  Shawn Ryan

  Humble, Tv Shows, Knowing

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• My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

  Stephen Root

  New York, Goal, Actors

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• "Antiques Roadshow" is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, "don't bother me."

  Lara Spencer

  Monday, Husband, Night

  "ABC's Lara Spencer can't wait to host 'Antiques Roadshow' in 2004". Interview with Mary Daniels, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2003.

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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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• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  Nadia Giosia

  Trying, Entertainment, Lifestyle

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• You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

  Brett Somers

  Personality, Knows

  "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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• One of Governor Romney's aides today on television said that Governor Romney, after he wins the primaries, will be like an [Etch A Sketch] - you take whatever he said and you can shake it up and it will be gone, and he's going to draw a whole new picture for the general election.

  Rick Santorum

  Winning, Etch A Sketch, Gone

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• A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Buddhism, People

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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 feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

  Geoff Stults

  Drama, Blessed, Careers

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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 wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

  Susan Sullivan

  Summer, Mother, Rivers

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

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• It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  Aaron Tveit

  Stage Actors, Lines, Littles

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• I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Comedy, Series

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• Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

  Justin Theroux

  Able, Individual

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• More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

  Kiana Tom

  Role Models, Needs, Roles

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• I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

  Rachael Taylor

  Character, Consistency, Periods

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

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• I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

  Rachael Taylor

  Girl, Character, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again..." Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.

  Damon Lindelof

  Believe, Reality, People

  "Lost's Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

  Dick Wolf

  Thinking, Watches, Stories

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• If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

  Dick Wolf

  Vote, Structure, Should

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• Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

  Julie Walters

  Drama, Interesting, Today

  "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

  Kate Walsh

  Coffee, House, Waiting

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

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• Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character.

  J. Robbins

  Character, Fabulous, Beard

  Source: collider.com

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