“I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.” KnowsPersonsWould BeFacesGrowing UpSawsGrowingEventsNew YorkTelevisionHugeCallingLike MeAsianUnheardOlder Sister Author:Yunjin Kim
“I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"” FirstsDoeShowsAmericaRememberSpaceSawsTelevisionTvsDeserveTv ShowsRemember WhenPostersTelevision ShowsBillboards Author:Jamie Bell
“It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again..." Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingBelieveI CanRealitySawsTelevisionGoes OnBoardsLame Author:Damon Lindelof
“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
“When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.” IfsLittlesSaidIdeasBeautifulFacesSawsTelevisionHairMessGood IdeasGorgeousSuckerWrestler Author:Muhammad Ali
“You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsShouldBelieveStillsBookSometimesStoriesCoursesGamesBrainNovelSawsTelevisionSeriesVery GoodTheatreVideoMediumsComplexityGreat WorkGood BookRichnessGood MovieI Still BelieveMovie Theatre Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“I was only driven to be the best and it was very disheartening sometimes that it took me so long to start getting my voice heard. That certainly started with television, but it was never because of where I came from, it was because people saw something in me.” PeopleLongSometimesVoiceSawsHeardTelevisionDrivenBeing The BestDisheartening Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
“Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.” ThinkingWorldFirstsRunningSawsHappenedMediaChangedTelevisionDebate Author:Dylan McDermott
“I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoWould BeTodayNationsSawsMediaTelevisionCamerasCarnageGettysburgTwo NationsMcclellan Author:George Will
“When I saw Elvis on television, I just fell in love with him completely. As a singer, I want to be able to relate to an audience like this man does. Of course, nobody can - he was the best there ever was.” MenWantDoeAbleCoursesAudienceSawsTelevisionSingersRelate Author:Faith Hill
“I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.” WorldWritingChildrenSelfCountryFeltSpaceSawsSkyChangedTelevisionUnderstoodWestEveningCyclesTexasDividesCowboyImageryInner SelfWayneBorderlineAmericanaExpansivenessWest Texas Author:Nathalie Handal
“I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw... Sometimes they end up on television.” MadeEndsSometimesNumbersSawsTelevision Author:Christopher Walken
“I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.” WorldKidsAgeGoneSawsTelevisionMadNephewNieceMy NieceNiece And Nephew Author:Jack Nicholson
“I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!” LooksSaidTwoPlayFeltSawsWifePlayerStyleTelevisionMinesProductionsMy WifeTechniqueStrokesCricketSimilarityCricketersPlaying CricketCricket Funny Author:Donald Bradman
“I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.” KnowsWantI CanFeltKnow HowGrowing UpSawsGrowingTelevisionFameTheaterAssumingExceptionalHalfwayMagnet Author:Brian d'Arcy James
“I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world.” WorldEndsMovingSawsTelevisionMovedDollarsProfessionAdvertisingMagazinesEducator Author:Lawrence Schiller
“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."” WantYearsLongSaidActorsBlackFiveSawsTelevisionTvsBabyRedDecidedDressesFive YearsButterflyFabulousGorgeousLiving OnEyelashesLike A ButterflyGorgeous Women Author:Niecy Nash
“The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."” Would BeWantedSleepVisionSawsNiceFrontsTelevisionHundredPatientAlternativesMadhousesHopping Book:The Dharma Bums Source: The Dharma Bums
“I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.” ThinkingRealReasonActingSawsTelevisionDadMy DadScreensBlown Away Author:Kim Basinger
“If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.” PeopleIfsKindI CanHomeEyeRememberFilmFoundSawsFansHonestTelevisionHugeScaryTeenagerStaringScareHalloweenBlurLogosBeing A Teenager Author:Imogen Poots
“This is, in fact, the biggest show that Marvel television has ever taken on, in the animation world. We had a real challenge that was posed to us, and that was this little, tiny art-house movie that came out last year, that I don't know if you saw, called Marvel's The Avengers, written and directed by our friend Joss Whedon, and it really set the template.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsLittlesArtRealFactsShowsLastsHouseChallengesTakenSawsWrittenTelevisionTinyLast YearAnimationAvengers Author:Jeph Loeb
“I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'” IfsTwoPlayTogetherSawsTelevisionCatHeyTomsJerryHungariansBrahmsTom And Jerry Author:Lang Lang
“Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been 500 people who wanted to talk to me because they saw me on TV. I've become sort of the Soupy Sales character on TV, and people do not really know me as a writer.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensCharacterWantedSportsPartySawsWeekTelevisionTvsPersonalityBowlsKnow MeTalk To MeSuper BowlColumnists Author:Woody Paige
“I saw a lot of lousy movies and watched a ton of crappy television and read a bunch of utterly forgettable books and comics and listened to hours of junk music as a kid. And I'm still drawing profitably in my own art on some of the tawdry treasure I stored up in those years.” YearsArtStillsBookKidsHoursMy OwnSawsTelevisionDrawingTreasureBunchJunkForgettable Author:Michael Chabon
“No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.” BookRealPlayFacesTurnsNamesForgetRoomsCasesSawsWonderfulConditionsTelevisionGladEveningExceptionNever ForgetCurtainsAdverse Author:Groucho Marx
“You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.” PeopleMadeDoneInterestingSawsTelevisionTvsCouple Author:Christopher Walken
“I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.” HomeBigsNightSawsFrontsTelevisionNewsPagesNewspapers Author:Paul Simon
“The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap plastic sandals. But a videotape released before September 11, which I saw on Lebanese television, had him in a gold embroidered robe. When I saw this, I thought, whoa, has this guy changed? I wouldn't have imagined him ever appearing in such golden robes when I met him.” GuySimpleWhiteSawsChangedTelevisionMetsGoldGoldenPlasticSeptemberThis GuyBin LadenSeptember 11AppearingSaudisRobesSandalsLebanese Author:Robert Fisk
“My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'” I CanNightParentCan DoLaughingSawsComedyHeardTelevisionLaughterUnderstoodCamerasSense Of HumorLaughedOne NightCandidPranksCandid Camera Author:Howie Mandel
“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.” PeopleThinkingShowsActorsSawsHappenedChangedTelevisionTvsLuckyTv ShowsLooking GoodPresentation Author:Parker Stevenson
“I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.” ThinkingKnowsStatesAmericaGuyAnswersUnitedClassWatchesUnited StatesSawsTelevisionTearsTvsArmsGrewGrew UpBarsAccentsUnited States Of AmericaDepartedClass System Author:William Monahan
“I wasn't able to articulate it until after audience members gave feedback. And then, similarly, when we talked about the bromance being unique, I don't think Mark, Jay, and I really saw how special that aspect of that bromance was until our audience members sort of gave us feedback and let us know, "Hey, we've never seen a bromance like this before on television."” ThinkingKnowsAbleAudienceSawsSpecialTelevisionMembersUniqueAspectMarkHeyFeedbackBeing UniqueBromance Author:Steve Zissis