Tv Shows Quotes - Page 17

• When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

  Alan Dale

  Giving, Gigs, Tvs

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Weed, Smart, Focus

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patric Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."

  John Sayles

  Two, Done, May

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch

  Gwen Stefani

  Snacks, Great Day, Bed

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• I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

  Aml Ameen

  First Love, Forever, Firsts

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

  Lena Waithe

  School, Tvs, Bigs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.

  Debora Spar

  Ivy, League, Misunderstood

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a TV show at a certain time, I couldn't do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me.

  Tom Anderson

  Ideas, Waiting, Sitting Down

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.

  Nick Antosca

  Writing, Sleep, Weekend

  Interview with Shane Jones, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

  Stark Sands

  Jobs, Believe, Play

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

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• I think TV shows have usurped films!

  Edie Campbell

  Thinking, Tvs, Film

  Dazed interview, www.dazeddigital.com.

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• I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.

  Christian Kane

  Careers, Comedian, Acting

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• I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

  Sunny Mabrey

  Couple, Done, Want

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• I download TV shows more and more, especially from the US.

  Julian Ovenden

  Tvs, Shows, Downloads

  "Julian Ovenden: 'The iPhone is surely the must-have gadget'". Interview with Stuart O'Konnor, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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• An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.

  Kristen Stewart

  Voice, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

  Vince Gilligan

  Successful, Past, Wanting More

  Source: deadline.com

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• When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.

  Howard Gordon

  Character, Profound, Mind

  Source: deadline.com

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• There were a lot of lessons of production to be learned. On the page, the biggest thing you learn on any TV show is how to write to your cast. You write the show at the beginning with certain voices in your head and you have a way that you think the characters will be, and then you have an actor go out there, and you start watching dailies and episodes. Then, you start realizing what they can do and what they can't do, what they're good at and what they're not so good at, how they say things and what fits in their mouth, and you start tailoring the voice of the show to your cast.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.

  Randy Moss

  Football, Awards, Play

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• Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

  Greg Graffin

  Stupid, Tvs, Shows

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• Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Mom, Memories, Father

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• I don't really like to arrange shows by best performances. That's why Emmy season is kind of a chore for me. Unlike movies, where it's easier to decide who was the best performance, a TV show goes up and down, including characters/portrayals.

  Hank Stuever

  Character, Tvs, Kind

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

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• Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good.

  Scott Speedman

  Interesting, Age, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.

  Eve Hewson

  Weekend, Office, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm fortunate enough to act in a TV show that makes me a lot of money so I can pay for my own movies. I don't have to wait for anybody and that's more of what I like doing. But I still think that you don't have to be connected in the industry to make your movie. You just have to write something that is meant to be made cheaply.

  Mark Duplass

  Writing, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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