Best Tvs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.”

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Author:Chuck Lorre

“I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.”

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Author:Damon Lindelof

“It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.”

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Author:Jason Lee

“I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!”

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Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.”

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Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.”

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Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.”

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Author:Nancy Meyers

“I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.”

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Author:Paula Malcomson

“I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.”

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Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.”

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Author:Samantha Morton

“I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.”

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Author:Stephenie Meyer

“With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.”

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Author:Zosia Mamet

“I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.”

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Author:Zosia Mamet

“I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.”

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Author:Zosia Mamet

“I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.”

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Author:Amaury Nolasco

“Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.”

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Author:Oscar Nunez

“I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.”

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Author:Ben Nicholas

“I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.”

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Author:Connie Nielsen

“I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.”

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Author:Corin Nemec

“If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.”

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Author:Cynthia Nixon

“There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.”

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Author:Lucas Neff

“I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.”

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Author:Bob Odenkirk

“I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.”

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Author:Bob Odenkirk

“With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.”

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Author:Kevin O'Leary

“I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.”

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Author:Nick Offerman

“I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.”

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Author:Sandra Oh

“I don't like everybody who I see on TV.”

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Author:Ellen Pompeo

“There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.”

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Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.”

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Author:Jay Pharoah

“I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.”

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Author:Kevin Pollak

“I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.”

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Author:Louise Penny

“The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.”

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“Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.”

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Author:David "Doc" Searls

“Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.”

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Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

“A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.”

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Author:Derek Luke

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