Tv Shows Quotes - Page 3

• I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

  Kirk Cameron

  Thinking, Ego, Tvs

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• At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Best Job, Long

  "Cooking up a mystery: an interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.raintaxi.com.

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• I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

  Jack Black

  Tvs, Remember, Tenacious

  "Jack Black talks about playing a gentle killer in Bernie and the early days of Tenacious D". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 2, 2012.

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• We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.

  Jessica Simpson

  Reality, People, Giving

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• The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.

  Carole Nelson Douglas

  Couple, Reality, Years

  Carole Nelson Douglas (2009). “Cat in a Topaz Tango: A Midnight Louie Mystery”, p.60, Macmillan

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• If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Hate, Mean

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• Like all mothers, mother nature is delighted to keep in touch with you when you're appearing in hit tv shows like BJ and the bear and My Two Dads but when you suddenly find yourself hosting When Insects Attack, oh she becomes strangely distant.

  Greg Evigan

  Mother, Dad, Two

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• The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

  William H. Macy

  Jobs, Play, People

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• It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

  David Krumholtz

  People, Together, Fans

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

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• Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Tvs, Defined

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.

  James Hetfield

  Wife, Feelings, President

  "The Hot Seat: James Hetfield". Interview with Hank Shteamer, www.timeout.com. June 18, 2012.

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• You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

  Chris Hemsworth

  America, Tvs, Bigs

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• I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

  Josh Hartnett

  Car, Audi, Down And

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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• I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Play, Broadway, Tvs

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• My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

  Tom Hanks

  Baby, Kids, Phones

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• The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.

  Matt Groening

  Home, Two, Tvs

  "Matt Groening: I could easily fill up my entire life just working on Futurama". Interview with Simon Gage, metro.co.uk. March 8, 2012.

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• Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

  Matt Groening

  Attention, Rewards, Tvs

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• Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

  Judd Gregg

  People, Tvs, Senators

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• I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Back Alleys, Egypt, Pyramids

  "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

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• When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

  Al Franken

  Writing, Worry, Firsts

  Senate hearing on COICA, arstechnica.com. February 16, 2011.

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• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  Nathan Fillion

  Art, Believe, Watches

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

  Snoop Dogg

  Artist, America, Giving

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

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• Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

  Treat Williams

  Successful, Long, Doe

  "Afternoon Treat". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. April 26, 2002.

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