Television Quotes - Page 7

• Television is a service, but it's also a business.

  Megyn Kelly

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• People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

  Victoria Pratt

  Stars, People, Teeth

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• Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Thinking, World, Nightmare

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• I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.

  Ali Velshi

  People, News, Pressure

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know we don't want to read? That's why we're watching TV.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Running, Watching Tv

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• Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Media, Irreverence

  "Rhino Records" Online Chat, June 17, 1997.

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• Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Space

  David Gerrold (2001). “Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, Writers Digest Books

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• The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

  Trevor McDonald

  Discovery, Fake, Genuine

  "Sir Trevor McDonald". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

  Sean William Scott

  Watches, Dukes, Bedroom

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• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Milos Forman

  Country, Sex, Years

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• I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

  John Sayles

  Book, Writing, People

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• I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

  Eric Idle

  Ideas, People, Gang

  "Something familiar: Monday night fall TV" by Dennis Michael, www.cnn.com. August 31, 1999.

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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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 think my own strengths are in television production.

  Jim Henson

  Thinking, My Own, Productions

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• Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

  Dylan McDermott

  People, Trying, Common

  "Scary Stuff, Kids! Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott Talk American Horror Story!". eclipsemagazine.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

  Robert MacNeil

  Night, Tunes, News

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• The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Funny Things, Watches

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

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• I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

  Mark Russell

  Thinking, Performers, Persons

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• People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

  Mark Russell

  People, Faces, Good Mood

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• Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Eye, Television Watching

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• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Montel Williams

  Educational, Media, Fcc

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Arguing, Social

  "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Dvds, House, Watches

  "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

  Andrew Shue

  Running, Years, Choices

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