“Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.” IfsGivingYearsWellsMadeCertainPayActingTelevisionGiving UpLifestyleNineIf I CouldAccustomedNine YearsRacers Author:Jason Priestley
“If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.” IfsShouldCertainPlansTelevisionVoteStructureStrikesContractsParticipationRationalityRight To VoteHealth Plan Author:Dick Wolf
“I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.” ThinkingFilmCertainActingTelevisionDown AndMore TimeSlow DownFilm And Television Author:Thomas McDonell
“Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.” ThinkingWorldWantWellsKindAgeCertainTermMillionsFantasyMagicTelevisionRealismExpandingHammeredMagic Realism Author:Terry Gilliam
“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.” IdeasStoriesCertainBitsSawsTelevisionParticularNewsTablesNewspapersEncountersBreakfastCommentArticlesRecallsRecognise Author:Mark Z. Danielewski
“Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.” FilmCertainModernTelevisionTheaterLibraryModern Day Author:David Strathairn
“One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.” FeelsPlayFilmCertainComedyTelevisionAmountDramaEntertainmentSpontaneity Author:Glenn Howerton
“I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.” IfsThinkingWritingPainFilmCertainViolenceTelevisionDramaIntelligentSakeHolesInstanceAgentsOffensiveTelevision Drama Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.” ThinkingFeelsLooksAbleCertainGamesSportsResultsWatchesTelevisionDecidedBoundsLook UpCheatReplay Author:A. S. Byatt
“It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.” CertainActorsWeekTelevisionScreens Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions.” PeopleUseRememberCertainLanguageGroupsTelevisionYeahIntentionSevenEnglish LanguageOutrageousRatiosBad WordBad ThoughtsBad Intentions Author:George Carlin
“The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.” ImportantCertainCultureTelevisionImpactInventionPrintingIndescribable Author:Carl Sandburg
“I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, television has a certain cache. Now everybody wants to be on TV because they're doing adult dramas. If you're an actor, it's like, "Well, get me on television," because it's the only place you can do it and also make a living at it. If my kids need shoes, I better do a TV show because I damn sure don't make any money with independent films.” IfsWantNeedsWellsShowsKidsFilmCertainActorsBlackCan DoTelevisionTvsDramaAdultsIndependentShoesHolesDamnTv ShowsYou Can Do ItIndependent FilmBlack HoleCache Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I think it does give me different stuff and I feel like television moves a lot faster than movie sets do. It's kinda like they have to get things done within a certain timeframe. So do movies but it seems like, as far as television is concerned, it just moves a helluva lot faster.” ThinkingGivingFeelsDoeDifferentDoneSeemsMovingCertainStuffTelevisionConcernedGive MeFasterThings DoneMovie Sets Author:Ludacris
“Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.” ThinkingWayWantShowsCertainTurnsTelevisionStrangeNegativeLegacyCinemaSci FiViewersTelevision ShowsTurn OffConnotationBarges Author:J.H. Wyman
“Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingYearsMadeImportantMatterMomentsBigsSeemsCertainNumbersStupidTelevisionDramaEuropeIndiaBlockAppealsOperaMatter Of TimeAmerican Television Author:Robert Ashley
“You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.” WantFirstsShowsCertainWrittenTelevisionRhythmDisturbed Author:Gary Cole