“I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.” PeopleWorldFeelsMadeDifferencesTelevisionHighestPaidViewersInfluential Author:Cristina Saralegui
“We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.” TryingEndsShowsCareActorsGoalAudienceTelevisionPaidShoesThrowingFrustrated Author:Sam Waterston
“We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.” WellsDoeTwoHelpingHoursBrainTelevisionDoctorsPaidBusyBehaveFortyEntertainingPillsToo BusyPrescriptions Author:Conor Oberst
“Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.” IfsTwoJobsWaitingChanceLossTalkingTelevisionListeningSingingLonelyPaidPhonesRadioDeterminedStationsCentsSaddestTwo CentsTelevision And Radio Author:Barbara Holland
“Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.” IfsWantWellsLittlesFactsBodyJobsSexAttentionObjectsTelevisionPrejudicePaidIntellectLiberationGet AheadOlder WomenAgeismTelevision News Author:Elinor Guggenheimer
“Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.” PeopleWantShouldDifferentEndsFilmNightMiddleTelevisionPaidTheaterEvery NightFilm And Television Author:Richard Dreyfuss
“I looked on the television the other night and saw them beating a Negro unmercifully in Mississippi. And this is the result of a brainwashing technique, a certain power structure in the American government has paid these Negro integrationist leaders to perpetuate among our people. But it's not a good thing, and it will never solve our problem.” PeopleProblemGovernmentNightCertainResultsLeaderSawsTelevisionPaidStructureGood ThingsSolveTechniqueMississippiBrainwashingAmerican Government Author:Malcolm X
“Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.” ThinkingWantGivingTryingChildrenLittlesGodFamilyTelevisionHealthHard WorkHigherHarderPaidAimThanksGood LifeFamily And FriendsAim HighPraise GodThankful For Friends Author:Art Linkletter
“Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.” PeopleWorldMindThis WorldTelevisionLuckyPaid Author:Andy Rooney
“The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.” StillsDealsFailingTelevisionPaidTownsGreat ThingsLos Angeles Author:Daniel Tosh
“If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?” PeopleIfsMindWellsRealityYoungTelevisionBasketballPaidCandyCottonYoung MindsReality TelevisionCotton CandyDunking Book:One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories Source: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories