Tvs famous quotes

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.
-- Sol Stein

#Reading #Stories #Tvs

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.
-- Sonny Bono

#Mean #Successful #Tvs

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.
-- Sophie Okonedo

#Black #Actresses #Tvs

Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.
-- Stana Katic

#Thinking #Careers #Tvs

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.
-- Stephanie Cutter

#Believe #Tvs #Harder

I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.
-- Stephen Chbosky

#Stars #Television #Tvs

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.
-- Stephen Collins

#Tv Shows #Acting #Tvs

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.
-- Stephen Daldry

#Eight #Hbo #Tvs

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
-- Stephen Dorff

#Media #Tvs #Film

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
-- Stephen J. Cannell

#Bottles #Tvs

TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes.
-- Steve Fowler

#Tvs #Idiot #These Days

I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.
-- Steve Harvey

#Tvs #Checks #Jokes

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
-- Steven Cojocaru

#Television #Mouths #Tvs

I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.
-- Steven Levitan

#People #Today #Tvs

Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.
-- Steven Moffat

#Challenges #Looks #Tvs

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.
-- Steven Soderbergh

#Reality #Tvs #Fiction

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.
-- Stuart Appleby

#World #Tvs

Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.
-- Studs Terkel

#Risk #Today #Tvs

You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
-- T-Pain

#Hate #Matter #Tvs

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
-- T. J. Thyne

#Land #Theatre #Tvs

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
-- Tammy Faye Bakker

#Thinking #People #Tvs

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.
-- Taylor Momsen

#Growing Up #Tvs #Watches

I think people watch TV to escape from life.
-- Terence Lewis

#Thinking #People #Tvs

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.
-- Terrence J

#School #College #Tvs

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.
-- Terry Bradshaw

#Mistake #Hate #Tvs

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
-- The Edge

#Art #Thinking #Tvs

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Tvs #Germany #Culture

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.
-- Tim Conway

#Kids #Way #Tvs

You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.
-- Tim Conway

#Surfing #Tvs #Watches

Why do you do what you do? Why do you dress the way you dress?Why do you do what you do with your time? Why do you watch what you watch on TV or at the movies or on the computer? Do you have God-glorifying reasons for all of it?
-- Tim Conway

#Way #Tvs #Dresses

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.
-- Tim Conway

#Tvs #Watches #Embarrassed

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.
-- Tim Cook

#Years #Rooms #Tvs

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train
-- Tina Brown

#Track #Tvs #Feels

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
-- Tina Fey

#Witty #Perfect #Tvs

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.
-- Tiny Tim

#Ideas #Order #Tvs

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
-- Tom Brokaw

#Fake People #Fickle #Tvs

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.
-- Tom Ellis

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Sometimes

I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.
-- Tom Freston

#Thinking #Metrics #Tvs

People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.
-- Tom Hollander

#Stars #People #Tvs

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
-- Tom Petty

#Thinking #Tv News #Tvs

You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.
-- Tom Selleck

#Tvs #Grew #Grew Up

Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.
-- Tom Shales

#Cutting #Television #Tvs

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
-- Tom Skerritt

#Writing #Tvs #Different

A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first of all, and they have to tell the story so that their life depends upon it.
-- Tony Grisoni

#Today #Firsts #Tvs

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
-- Tony Kushner

#Gay #Important #Tvs

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.
-- Topher Grace

#Facts #Tvs #Cameras

I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with.
-- Traci Bingham

#Reality #Tv Shows #Tvs

We'll bring out the Elvis TV trays.
-- Tracy Byrd

#Tvs #Trays

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.
-- Trenton Lee Stewart

#Apples #Germs #Tvs

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
-- Truman Capote

#Writing #Tvs

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.
-- Tucker Carlson

#People #Watches #Tvs

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.
-- Tucker Max

#Independent #Tvs

Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every week.
-- Tyler Christopher

#Benefits #Tvs #Week

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
-- Uma Thurman

#Reality #Tvs #Comedy

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
-- Val Kilmer

#News #Definitions #Tvs

I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
-- Vanilla Ice

#Adventure #Stuff #Tvs

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
-- Victor Garber

#Done #Tvs

My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
-- Victoria Justice

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Glee

I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
-- Victoria Justice

#Thinking #Tv Shows #Tvs

We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.
-- Victoria Pratt

#Moving #People #Tvs

I think people are just shocked to see me walking around. It's weird. When they see you on TV, they don't expect to see you in a store.
-- Victoria Pratt

#Thinking #People #Tvs

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
-- Victoria Wood

#Radio #Tvs #Goes On

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Tvs #Program #Theater

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
-- Walter Payton

#Tvs #Want #Want Me

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
-- Wanda Sykes

#People #Tvs #Comedy

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.
-- Wendy Liebman

#Hilarious #Husband #Tvs

The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.
-- Wes Anderson

#Crazy #Thinking #Tvs

Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.
-- Wes Craven

#Our World #Tvs #Doe

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.
-- Will Arnett

#Character #Tvs #Yeah

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.
-- Will Ferrell

#Kids #Tvs #News

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
-- Willard Scott

#Tvs #Critics

Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.
-- William Devane

#Brother #Tv Shows #Tvs

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
-- William Shatner

#New York #Actors #Tvs

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working.
-- Willie Pep

#Wife #Boxing #Tvs

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
-- Woody Allen

#Dinner #Tvs #Frozen

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?
-- Woody Allen

#Life #Art #Tvs

I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.
-- Wynton Marsalis

#Football #Brother #Tvs

I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Thinking #Talking #Tvs

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
-- Zosia Mamet

#Girl #Long #Tvs

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.
-- Akiva Goldsman

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Sometimes

My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show.
-- Alan Dale

#Tv Shows #Wife #Tvs

It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.
-- Alan Sepinwall

#Superhero #Tvs #Places You Go

The closer you get to what's happening in TV now and the ways it's evolving, the more danger you get into.
-- Alan Sepinwall

#Way #Tvs #Danger

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.
-- Alex Blumberg

#Radio #Today #Tvs

[Exorcist ] is given all of us a great opportunity to show something new on network TV, in terms of the quality of it. It feels much bigger than a network show.
-- Alfonso Herrera

#Opportunity #Quality #Tvs

I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.
-- Andy Kindler

#Nastiness #Tvs

Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.
-- Andy Kindler

#Parks And Rec #Entertainment #Tvs

That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.
-- Anne Taylor Fleming

#Memories #Home #Tvs

I have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna get kidnapped, or somebody's gonna die, or killer bees are going to take you out. I'm a very anxious person.
-- Annie E. Clark

#Kids #Killers #Tvs

For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.
-- Aubrey O'Day

#Reality #Tvs #These Days

TV and film has defined my entire life.
-- Azita Ghanizada

#Tvs #Film #Defined

If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.
-- Beth Mowins

#Sports #Watches #Tvs

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.
-- Carter Jenkins

#Differences #Acting #Tvs

I don't like reality TV as far as it being scripted and not being true reality.
-- Cody Johnson

#Reality #Tvs #Being True

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.
-- Colin Callender

#Writing #Oscars #Tvs

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.
-- Darren Shahlavi

#Tv Shows #Stuff #Tvs

There is a massive gender imbalance on TV
-- Dawn O'Porter

#Imbalance #Tvs #Gender

Wrestling is realer than reality TV.
-- Diamond Dallas Page

#Wrestling #Reality #Tvs

Can you imagine if everyone on the planet turned off their TV to stop the intake of fear from the news channels and just concentrated on love? The whole planet would instantly propel itself into the ascension process and turn into a heavenly state in a higher vibratory dimension!
-- DJ QBert

#Ascension #Tvs #Dimensions

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
-- Doug Liman

#People #Want #Tvs