Television Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.

  Antony Beevor

  Writing, Wine, Night

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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've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.

  Bob Balaban

  Hands, Always Trying, People

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• Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

  Bob Barker

  Country, Decision, Finals

  "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

  Brian Baumgartner

  Directors, Mediums

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2010.

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• I humbly apologise for reality Television.

  Cilla Black

  Reality, Reality Television

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• But reality television is here to stay.

  Cilla Black

  Reality, Reality Television

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• Movies are movies, television is television.

  Dirk Benedict

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• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Radio, Corporations, Majority

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• I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

  Ed Balls

  Thinking, Years, People

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• The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

  Guy Burgess

  Media, Stories, Able

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• Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

  James Brolin

  Dream, Kids, Kansas

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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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• I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Years, Play, Three

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• I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Theatre, Film

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• We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

  Jillian Bach

  Actors, Film, Theater

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• I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

  Julie Bowen

  Character, Opportunity, Reality

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• If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

  Karen Black

  Sorry, Believe, America

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• For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

  Kathy Bates

  Long, Challenges, Roles

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• But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

  Lake Bell

  New York, Hipster, America

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

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• So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

  Rick Baker

  People, Generations, Stuff

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• For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, Editing, Important

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

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