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“Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.”

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Author:Michael J. Bassett

“There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.”

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Author:Tom Selleck

“I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.”

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Author:Alexandra Paul

“I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.”

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Author:Laurence Fishburne

“The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.”

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Author:David Fincher

“But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good with actors and he knows acting well. It's great to see him do that and be really good at it and he's been doing it for a while and he certainly knows how to make movies, and little movies I guess for a television show, and he's going to come back in November to direct a second episode, which I'm really excited about.”

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Author:Emily Deschanel

“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.”

“In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.”

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Author:Ingrid Bergman

“Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time.”

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Author:Laura Benanti

“I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."”

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Author:Niecy Nash

“I'm a fan of movies and television shows, and I don't expect anything from actors and actresses, or anyone, but good work. What they do. I don't feel like I deserve a piece of their personal life, or even what they think about the work they do.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“I'm always aware that there's a trick to television to prevent an actor from becoming too lazy. Once you become too familiar with a character, it can stifle the adrenalin from flowing through in the performance.”

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Author:Julianna Margulies

“I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.”

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Author:Vincent Kartheiser

“I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.”

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Author:Matt Barr

“I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.”

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Author:Vinessa Shaw

“Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.”

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Author:Kathryn Hahn

“I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.”

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Author:Dylan McDermott

“More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.”

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Author:Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.”

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Author:Nina Tassler

“Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.”

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Author:Nick Willing

“I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.”

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Author:Lauren Graham

“Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“If you ask any of the other actors, they'd probably say nice things because they're nice people, but I was always like, "Oh gosh, I hope I'm doing this right." I was very hard on myself, and I continue to be. That's why it's sometimes hard for me to digest watching myself on television. There is some pressure.”

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Author:Steven Yeun

“Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.”

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Author:Busy Philipps

“When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see what they're giving you, so you try to write back to that, and then they play with that, and you get a sense of what is going on. That's just a natural way in which TV series usually work.”

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Author:Remi Aubuchon

“I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic.”

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Author:Patrick Stewart

“Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.”

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Author:Greg Kinnear

“I never thought of myself as being that good looking, I was an actor, people saw me on television, and then they start to think you're good looking because of that presentation. I was no better looking before the show, than after - and before the TV show I couldn't get a date to save my life. So what changed? Did I suddenly become more good looking? No. I got lucky, I got a TV show. That's what happened.”

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Author:Parker Stevenson

“There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.”

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Author:David Rasche

“Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.”

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Author:Gary Cole

“When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and the technical side of it. You're not going to change your relationship with the actors or how you approach the characters. That wasn't any different.”

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Author:Len Wiseman

“There wasn't even a movie theater in the town. Nothing. Not even any fast food chains of any kind. Regardless, I knew that I was going to leave and become an actor, and be in film and television, and I've done it.”

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Author:Kristen Hager

“What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do everything. I do theater, film, and television, and the theater is mostly financed by the government.”

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Author:Meital Dohan

“In ten years, or certainly before then, I'd like to not only be continuously busy as an actor playing tormented, playful characters in film and television but also have gotten a few of my own films made.”

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Author:Kyle Cassie

“I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.”

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Author:James Lipton

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