“In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.” FirstsKindPersonsHardWholeCharacterStoriesShowsAbleFilmReadingOpportunityFictionNovelTvsComplexesComplicatedInternalsTv ShowsFirst Person Author:Joe Meno
“I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.” HelpingShowsTalkingRecordsTvsSellsHelp MeTv Shows Author:Schoolboy Q
“People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.” PeopleShowsTvsAlbumsAll TimeDelusionTv ShowsBland Author:Rob Zombie
“As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music... and you know, you hope people respond to it. You always have to know, as well, that not everybody's gonna like it. And that's okay. It's not for everyone. It's just for the crusty nugs.” PeopleKnowsWellsShowsFilmArtistMaterialsTvsOkayTv Shows Author:Pauly Shore
“Early in my career it was very important that I gain the reputation. I haven't been on the road in two or three years, but when I say tickets are on sale, I know they're going to be gone, even if my movie bombed or my TV show sucked.” IfsKnowsYearsTwoImportantShowsThreeCareersGoneHavensTvsGainsReputationThree YearsTicketsTv Shows Author:Chris Rock
“You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.” IfsShowsBigsAmericaTvsTv Shows Author:Chris Hemsworth
“You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my age... and you have your own TV show.” PeopleShouldMeanShowsHumorCareAgeFunnyGirlNiceTvsDon't CareI Don't CareGradesBeing NiceTv ShowsOther GirlBe Nice To People Author:Chelsea Handler
“I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.” DifferentShowsStupidTvsZoneHanging OutTv ShowsFunny ThingsJust SayingStupid Funny Author:Chanel West Coast
“Basically, growing up, and being a teenage kid, I've always been interested in charity. And one of the benefits of being on a TV show and having a fan base, you kind of have the power to spread news around.” KindShowsKidsGrowing UpGrowingFansTvsBenefitsNewsCharitySpreadTv ShowsTeenage Author:Gregg Sulkin
“Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.” StoriesShowsFilmMotivationEnjoyTelevisionTvsRight NowFindingsThese DaysTv Shows Author:Jaimie Alexander
“I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just plummeted. It was like I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve.” ShowsAbleWantedPassionAchieveTvsTheaterTv ShowsMy Passion Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.” WantShowsStarsComedyTvsSakeTv Shows Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it's from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case.” BookShowsInspirationCasesMysteryTvsColdMurderNewspapersObsessedWorking ItArticlesFascinatedTv ShowsForensicsCold Case Author:Scott Heim
“We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources - it's a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.” MayShowsTurnsWeekTvsResourcesSizeTv ShowsUnlimitedSampleSample Size Author:Jamie Hyneman
“Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWellsCountryStatesShowsRealityGovernmentWould BeGuyHouseUnderstandingCitiesTvsOur CountryVotingGet BackTv ShowsBad GuysReality TvGovernment And Politics Author:Campbell Newman
“As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.” IfsShowsHandsActorsOpportunityRealizingCareersRolesSpecialTvsLuckyPagesScriptsMemorableCategoriesTv ShowsLucky You Author:Holt McCallany
“More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.” PeopleRealShowsRealitySeemsYoungInterestingTvsSeriesIraqMeaningfulIslandsSurvivorAfghanistanRelevantTv ShowsTv Series Author:John Fahey
“It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY” WorldWayNeedsChildrenImportantShowsJoyLaughingImpossibleWeekShareTelevisionSeriousTvsFindingsFunctionImportanceStupidityMy ChildrenChanging The WorldImmenseTv ShowsFinding Out The Truth Author:Richard Curtis
“I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.” SometimesMatterShowsFeelingsPresidentWifeTvsTv ShowsPits Author:James Hetfield
“I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.” KindDifferentShowsTelevisionTvsCarefulBe CarefulDifferent KindsTv ShowsTelevision Shows Author:John Hawkes
“To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.” IfsThinkingWorldShowsTvsTv ShowsItunes Author:Stephen King
“You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.” PeopleI CanTwoPlayShowsWatchesTvsGuitarTwo ThingsTv ShowsMake Me Happy Author:Stephen King
“I love going to work, doing acting. I love when I'm done with a movie or a TV show. I love hitting the road or being in the studio or going on tour. That's what I get off on. I don't need to have my business in the press and all that stuff. I'm pretty low key. It's all about the work for me.” NeedsDoneShowsStuffActingTvsKeysLowsPressesStudiosHittingTv ShowsGoing To WorkLow Key Author:Bryan Greenberg
“Every single job I do. It sounds goofy but I did a music video for Fergie. I was in full on tattoos, ponytail, but it's like even things like that they help other people to see you in a different light. They give me opportunities. I try and change the image with every job that I can, it's just hard when you work on a TV show and you work so many months and trying to get away from that.” PeopleGivingTryingI CanDifferentHardHelpingShowsLightJobsOpportunitySoundTvsMonthsGive MeHelping OthersVideoGet AwayTv ShowsTattooGoofyPonytails Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.” WayPlayShowsWinningSportsPlayerTvsProudTasteQuietBandAll ThingsBoringAwardsTv ShowsDocumentariesSnobElitistScrabbleUnassuming Author:Michael Ian Black
“Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.” IfsThinkingNeedsWritingFirstsWellsLooksKindImportantShowsTogetherCoursesPerfectStyleTvsElementsPerformancesWhat IfPerformersTv ShowsSlickPerfect Marriage Author:Edgar Wright
“TV is such a success nowadays because it gives back in a way that features can't. If you go to a film, you only get two hours of great storytellers and performers, and you pay top dollar for that. If you're subscribing to premium channels and you're getting all of these amazing TV shows, and you're watching them as you want, where you want, when you want, on what you want, I think that is the "the golden era of TV" in what television shows are offering to audiences. We're giving them a lot more. It's quality.” IfsThinkingWayWantGivingTwoShowsFilmHoursPayQualityAudienceTelevisionTvsDollarsWhat You WantGoldenErasFeaturesPerformersOfferingTv ShowsStorytellerGiving BackTelevision ShowsPremium Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings about how the characters should act. When the scriptwriters go slightly wrong, when they make the character make a left turn that he or she wouldn't do, you know enough about the characters to say, "No, that's not what she would do there. That's wrong." You can actually argue with a TV show in a way that you can't do as much with movie - you inhabit a TV show in the way you inhabit a novel.” KnowsWayShouldEnoughCharacterShowsFeelingsTurnsLeftNovelTvsArguingDo You KnowEpisodesTv Shows Author:Nicholson Baker
“I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.” IfsWantFirstsStillsI CanShowsTogetherDiesNamesMy OwnCompanyStageTvsRight NowProjectsProductionsTv ShowsFunny Or DieTeaming Up Author:Dave Franco
“I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.” WorldWayShowsRealityFilmUsedCertainSeeingFansTvsSingingDancingIntentionMy WayTv ShowsReality Tv Author:Julianne Hough
“Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that.” YearsShowsPositionTvsLuckyAdvantageDecidedSakeEightDecadesHonestlyTv ShowsCartoon Author:Mila Kunis
“I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.” ShowsWatchesTvsDramaSci FiTv Shows Author:Charles Stross
“L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I'd been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I'll go back to L.A.” WritingShowsHomeMovingHellTvsNeededBrokeInevitableTv ShowsDivorcedSan FranciscoPlaces To LiveAlimonyMoving Back Author:James Ellroy
“Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.” LittlesShowsActorsSituationStageTvsFineActressesPerformingTv Shows Author:Wanda Sykes
“When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.” KnowsWritingShowsActorsTvsTv Shows Author:Michael Brandt
“I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.” CharacterShowsFallTvsDirectorsFalling In LoveDrivenTv Shows Author:Doug Liman
“My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show.” ShowsWifeTvsMy WifeTv Shows Author:Alan Dale
“When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.” GivingShowsTvsTv ShowsGigsRecurring Author:Alan Dale
“Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.” IfsShowsGivenTvsTaxesOrdinaryCongressCodeIslandsSurvivorBobLockedTv ShowsSectionsProposalTaxpayersVaults Author:Dave Barry
“Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.” PeopleWayGivingMayChildrenBookShowsGamesUnderstandingAliveTvsMovedTinyVideoCharmingTv ShowsBosomsDollsPuppyKittenVader Author:Chris Van Allsburg
“Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.” ShowsJobsTvsDefinedTv ShowsNever EndingFull Time Jobs Author:John Hodgman
“You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an "ass." Unless you're British, calling someone an ass really doesn't work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag.” CharacterShowsTelevisionTvsCallingBritishAssTv ShowsCringeScumbagsCalling SomeoneDirtbags Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.” IfsKnowsDoneEnoughHelpingStoriesShowsLosesAttentionFocusPolicyTvsPoliticianSmartDeserveCompromiseWeedTv ShowsAutonomyThings Done Author:Tony Goldwyn
“I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."” KnowsMayTwoDoneShowsFiveTvsSixSentencesFeaturesTv Shows Author:John Sayles
“A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch” I CanShowsWatchesTvsBedTv ShowsGreat DaySnacks Author:Gwen Stefani
“I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.” WantFirstsShowsFilmForeverFansTvsHugeFirst LoveTv ShowsGreat Film Author:Aml Ameen
“I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.” ShowsBigsWantedSchoolTvsHigh SchoolTv ShowsCritiqueBig Movie Author:Lena Waithe
“It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.” MadeShowsGenerationsHappenedFeminismTvsMade ItLeagueTv ShowsMisunderstoodAstronautMy GenerationIvyIvy League Author:Debora Spar
“I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a TV show at a certain time, I couldn't do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me.” IdeasShowsFormCertainWaitingTvsInternetLateSittingDown AndEntertainmentTv ShowsSitting DownWatching Tv Author:Tom Anderson
“I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.” WritingI CanTwoSometimesShowsNightTermHoursSleepFictionCasesTvsLateScriptsEveningReasonableAfternoonWeekendTv ShowsGoing To SleepScheduling Author:Nick Antosca