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Television Quotes
"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."
126
"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
71
"I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television."
58
"If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck."
51
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
51
"So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it."
49
"You never know what's going to happen with television these days."
48
"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
47
"When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally."
47
"I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room."
46
"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress."
46
"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show."
46
"There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come."
45
"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."
45
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
45
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
44
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
44
"I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are."
44
"Television has raised writing to a new low."
44
"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
44
"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
44
"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces."
44
"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."
43
"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
43
"Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there."
42
"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system."
42
"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
41
"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
40
"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
40
"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."
40
"Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway."
39
"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
39
"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."
39
"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."
38
"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
37
"Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user."
37
"Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows."
37
"If you make compelling television, they will come."
37
"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."
37
"The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television."
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