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Television Quotes
"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."
32
"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
31
"There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come."
13
"I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television."
13
"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."
10
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
10
"I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are."
9
"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."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
7
"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."
7
"If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck."
7
"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."
7
"Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there."
7
"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
7
"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."
7
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
6
"Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user."
6
"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."
6
"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system."
6
"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
6
"I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive."
6
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
5
"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."
5
"I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best."
5
"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
5
"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
5
"Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway."
5
"Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there."
5
"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."
5
"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
5
"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."
5
"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
4
"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."
4
"Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do."
4
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
4
"Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows."
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