Best Television Shows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.”

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Author:Eva Longoria

“I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

“I would love to do a television show in New York City.”

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Author:Ellen Barkin

“Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!”

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Author:Dirk Benedict

“You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“Every television show you go on is a choice.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.”

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Author:Eli Roth

“As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“I have never been in a violent movie or television show.”

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Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.”

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Author:Angie Stone

“If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.”

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Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.”

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Author:Alex Tabarrok

“They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.”

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Author:Kiana Tom

“'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.”

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Book:Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

“We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.”

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Book:Choke

Source: Choke

“Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.”

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Author:Alton Brown

“Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.”

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Author:Les Brown

“Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favorite song that you knew by heart. It’s like suddenly forgetting the name of someone you know really well and see every day, or the name of a television show you watched for years. It’s something so frustrating that it plays on your mind over and over again because you know there’s an answer but no one can tell you it. It niggles and niggles at me and I can’t rest until I know the answers.”

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Author:Cecelia Ahern

“When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.”

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Author:Tony Campolo

“You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.”

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Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.”

“I want to be there when you get Cubbin. And I don’t want to be left out of the television show either. Little people are sexy now. Have you seen Game of Thrones? We’re hot.”

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Book:Notorious Nineteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Source: Notorious Nineteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel

“Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.”

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Author:Fatima Siad

“Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.”

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Author:Reba McEntire

“I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.”

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Author:Molly Ringwald

“In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'”

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Author:Diablo Cody

“To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.”

“Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It’s steady work. It’s a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way… where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.”

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Author:Kelly Rowan

“I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.”

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Author:Jason Ritter

“It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.”

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Author:Kaitlin Olson

“I try to get away. Its very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things Ive had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.”

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Author:Stana Katic

“I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980”

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Author:Julian Bond

“I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.”

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Author:Gary Cole

“Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.”

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Author:Casey Kasem

“With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.”

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Author:David Halberstam

“I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie — or watch a television show for that matter — without hearing the constant use of the F-word — including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that!”

“There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.”

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Author:Bryan Cranston

“Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.”

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Author:Rodney A. Smolla

“Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.”

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Author:Victor Garber

“So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.”

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Author:Alan Thicke

“Our kids didn't do this to themselves. They don't decide the sugar content in soda or the advertising content of a television show. Kids don't choose what's served to them for lunch at school, and shouldn't be deciding what's served to them for dinner at home. And they don't decide whether there's time in the day or room in the budget to learn about healthy eating or to spend time playing outside.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.”

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Author:Peter Benchley

“The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.”

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Book:Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Source: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'.”

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Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

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