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Television Quotes
"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."
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"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
48
"I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television."
34
"If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck."
24
"Television has raised writing to a new low."
24
"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."
24
"There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come."
23
"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
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"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
22
"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
22
"Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there."
21
"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
21
"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."
21
"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
20
"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."
20
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
19
"I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are."
19
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
19
"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."
19
"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."
19
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
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"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."
18
"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."
18
"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
18
"We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight."
18
"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."
18
"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system."
17
"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
17
"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."
17
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
16
"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."
16
"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."
16
"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
16
"You never know what's going to happen with television these days."
16
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
16
"Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway."
16
"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."
16
"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
15
"Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user."
15
"Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows."
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