Tvs Quotes - Page 34

• Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.

  Mort Sahl

  Mad, Firsts, Rich

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2011

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• I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Insult, Audience

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• The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.

  Zak Penn

  Hands, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• To look like you are a real sports fan, when there is a game on TV just yell, Oh, come on! every now and then at the TV.

  Demetri Martin

  Sports, Real, Games

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2012

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• The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition.

  Drew Carey

  Years, Long, Competition

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles?

  Emo Philips

  Baseball, Dad, Hands

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• It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?

  Tom Hanks

  Media, Names, Track

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• I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.

  Bill Hicks

  War, Believe, Long

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• The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.

  Reed Hastings

  Tv Shows, Netflix, Watches

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• Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

  Jason Alexander

  Stars, Looks, Television

  "THE CRAFTSMAN - For JASON ALEXANDER, life after Seinfeld is a lot like before: It's about the work". Interview with Rob Kendt, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.

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• People see me on TV and I'm this calm, level headed guy. Honestly, that's the furthest thing from who I am. For a long time I struggled with anger and stress. It was killing me, figuratively and literally.

  Tom Bergeron

  Stress, Who I Am, Long

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

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• Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the funniest shows on TV and I was a little intimidated working with those guys 'cause you're in a sound booth by yourself and they're all in a room in Atlanta.

  David Cross

  Atlanta, Aqua, Guy

  "David Cross from Arrested Development". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 1, 2004.

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• These days, young people watch TV on smartphones and computers. Young people with an actual TV set are harder to find than a picture of Anthony Weiner with his clothes on.

  Craig Ferguson

  Smartphones, Clothes, People

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• A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Years, People

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• There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and on records, it's easy to insulate one's self from the public; that's why I think I wouldn't care to be a television performer, particularly in the States, where TV stardom is so intimate.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Self, Giving

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.

  Artie Lange

  Careers, Two, Mad

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• For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Character, Years, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Marathon, Discovering, Keep Going

  Source: collider.com

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• I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Pertinent Questions, Brain, Film

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.

  Taylor Swift

  Acting, Video, Roles

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, "Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?" And he was like, "No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is."

  Steven Yeun

  Tv Shows, Being Thankful, Gigs

  Source: collider.com

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• If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Instinct, Ifs

  "Joe Eszterhas". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.

  Andy Cohen

  Real, Thinking, Self

  "Andy Cohen shares his days and nights in new book". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, www.washingtontimes.com. November 12, 2014.

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• People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.

  Will Gluck

  Real, People, Dumb

  Source: collider.com

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• It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

  Marc Webb

  Drama, Character, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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