Television Quotes - Page 9

• I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

  John Larroquette

  Guests, Shots

  "10 Questions With John Larroquette". Interview with Stacy Jenel Smith, www.aarp.org. March 17, 2011.

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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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• We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Years, Challenges, Important

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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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• 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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• We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

  Chuck D

  Real, People, Faces

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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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 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 don't really get a chance to watch much television.

  Will Estes

  Watches, Chance, Everybody Loves Raymond

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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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• 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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• What I can say that's different in American television… in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

  John Barrowman

  Couple, Fall, Different

  "‘Arrow’: John Barrowman talks archery, ‘Doctor Who’ anniversary". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Pain, Nice

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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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• I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

  Sandra Brown

  Writing, Careers, Live Theatre

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• A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

  Adam Baldwin

  Watches, Cookies, Stories

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• It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

  Alexis Bledel

  Years, Sides, Tvs

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• Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Film And Television, Feels, Approach

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• I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Mind, Actors, Film

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• I humbly apologise for reality Television.

  Cilla Black

  Reality, Reality Television

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• Movies are movies, television is television.

  Dirk Benedict

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• I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

  Jeffrey Bewkes

  Hbo, Cnn, Magazines

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