Tvs famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.
-- Doug Liman -
The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.
-- Doug Liman -
To me, Modest Mouse is one of the best bands ever. I actually wasn't surprised that they made it big. It's always weird to see it happen, and it happens so fast, all of a sudden songs are in the background on TV.
-- Doug Martsch -
TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.
-- Dov Davidoff -
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
-- Ed O'Brien -
I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.
-- Elizabeth Crook -
Oh, IMDB, yeah; there's a few things on there that are TV, they're not film, some things they think we did that we didn't. There's a few inaccuracies in there. It's terrifying though, isn't it?
-- Eric Fellner -
The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.
-- Erin McKeown -
Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.
-- Essence Atkins -
But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.
-- Evan Jones -
I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.
-- Frank Caliendo -
Originally, I started acting because I showed interest in movies and TV.
-- Gage Munroe -
Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.
-- Gaspar Noe -
People sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say "oh, this is a real movie, this is not a TV movie."
-- Gaspar Noe -
Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs, and I'm at home. There's no gratification and there's no audience interaction with it.
-- Genndy Tartakovsky -
Every area had their own superstar. The TV was not national, it was localized. So you could develop in one place, or the next place and be a better star, go to the next place and be a superstar.
-- George Steele -
Why did I decide to become an actor ? I decided because my brother helped me decide. I knew nothing about the entertainment industry, and never thought I actually would. I never had an interest in it. I grew up not watching many movies or rarely watching TV.
-- George Stults -
The wonderful thing about a TV show is if you get picked up for another season, there's no happily ever after.
-- Guy Branum -
TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists, and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back.
-- Hiro Murai -
Spiffy is a free-loading deadbeat kitty who sits around on my couch, watches TV all day, and eats all the Triscuits.
-- Jade Puget -
The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy basically.
-- James Bobin -
You can be a lot more subtle on TV, which is funny because I feel like TV is known for being the opposite of that. The thing we experience in life is that things are not overly dramatic, and things often happen in really small ways.
-- Jay Duplass -
I sometimes hear people say women don't want to direct studio films, but I do. I want to direct big films, little films, TV. I want to do it all.
-- Jen McGowan -
TV depends very much on the pictures that you see on your television, and all the other things that come up on the screen, whether it be GFX, the studio or the pictures of the game.
-- Jill Douglas -
I don't think Donald Trump is afraid of journalists. If he was, he wouldn't be on the TV every hour on the hour.
-- Joe Arpaio -
It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.
-- Jon Spaihts -
You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.
-- Jon Turteltaub -
I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.
-- Joyce Giraud -
I download TV shows more and more, especially from the US.
-- Julian Ovenden -
I suppose when some people see you on TV, they expect you to be this flamboyant, champagne-drinking stud. But I'm not like that.
-- Kelvin Fletcher -
If I thought someone was just chatting me up because of being on TV, it'd kill me.
-- Kelvin Fletcher -
I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.
-- Kerry Wood -
People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.
-- Kieran Bew -
There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.
-- Kieran Bew -
People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.
-- Kurt Braunohler -
I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.
-- Larisa Alexandrovna -
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 -
I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.
-- Lissie -
Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV.
-- Lupita Nyong'o -
With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.
-- Marc Blucas -
TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.
-- Marc Blucas -
The people who are doing really well and who are getting stopped in airports are the people who are going to say the more outrageous things and get on TV and state their opinion on a regular basis.
-- Mark Leibovich -
Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.
-- Matthew Specktor -
Robin Roberts - what a trailblazer she has been in sports TV! One of the best in TV.
-- Megan Alexander -
I worked on Crash, the TV series, some Disney shows like Get Connected, Brain Surge & iCarly on Nickelodeon, but Make It Pop is my very first lead role in a series.
-- Megan Lee -
When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.
-- Michael Brandt -
Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.
-- Michel Auder -
Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.
-- Nick Antosca -
The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.
-- Nick Antosca -
In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.
-- Noah Hawley -
Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.
-- Oliver Jackson-Cohen -
When you truly have fun on the set it translates into a funny show on tv.
-- Olivia Stuck -
I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.
-- Patricia Mauceri -
After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.
-- Paul Wardingham -
I'm really excited about my TV show. I wrote it with my best friend.
-- Pell James -
Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.
-- Perry Brass -
I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.
-- Peter Webber -
I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.
-- Renee O'Connor -
I never want to be on TV on a reality show.
-- Richard Hilfiger -
I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.
-- Rockne S. O'Bannon -
I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.
-- Roel Reine -
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
-- Roger Avary -
Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.
-- Rosie O'Donnell -
I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular day job where you get to do what you love.
-- Sarah Baker -
What we see on the TV screen, or the film screen or what we listen to in music, we have an illusion of what Prince Charming looks like or Cinderella's gonna look like in our life and we forget about what true love really means.
-- Shari Wiedmann -
[People saying to me] "You look taller on TV." I get that all the time.
-- Simone Biles -
I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.
-- Tawni O'Dell -
I like relationships on TV between men and women, when they're not just flirtatious and sexual.
-- Trieste Kelly Dunn -
It's fun being on a TV show and not having to wear heels.
-- Trieste Kelly Dunn -
I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.
-- Yasmin Paige -
In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!
-- Betty Lynn -
I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.
-- Bonnie McKee -
If you are going to ask me what I watch on TV, I would probably have to say the majority of it is stuff on SyFy or Discovery Channel or it's about ghost seekers.
-- Boti Bliss -
I would love, obviously, just to keep doing stand-up. That's the constant. That's the thing that I'm going to do for the rest of my life, but also I would like a TV show at some point.
-- Brad Williams -
I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.
-- Brian F. O'Byrne -
TV has gotten so boring that the only thing I watch is the news.
-- Brigid Berlin -
People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.
-- Adrian Pasdar -
It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.
-- Aeriel Miranda -
I never really said I wanted to be a TV star, when I was a kid.
-- Abby Brammell -
TV is all new to me because I came from features.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon -
I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.
-- Alia Shawkat -
You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.
-- Alia Shawkat -
In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.
-- Mary Harron -
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
-- Andrew Davies -
It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.
-- Andrew Flintoff -
You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.
-- Anthony Edwards -
When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.
-- Austin Butler -
Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.
-- Christian McKay -
If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in.
-- Paul Young -
Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.
-- Corey Stoll -
What TV was to John Kennedy, Facebook is to Obama.
-- Daniel Lyons -
Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the end, it turns out they'd do anything for their friends. TV Land has really found that formula.
-- David Alan Basche -
Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.
-- David Brinkley -
There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.
-- Randy Jackson
