“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