Ernie Kovacs famous quotes
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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
-- Ernie Kovacs -
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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Isn't television glamourous?
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My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
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time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...
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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.
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I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
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