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Television Quotes
"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."
49
"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."
49
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
47
"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
47
"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."
47
"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
46
"We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight."
46
"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
46
"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
46
"I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years."
46
"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
45
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
45
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
44
"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."
44
"If you make compelling television, they will come."
44
"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
44
"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
44
"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."
43
"Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do."
43
"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
43
"Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that."
42
"Year Two is a critical year for any television show."
42
"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."
42
"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."
42
"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"
42
"The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad."
41
"I don't think I miss anything by not watching television."
41
"CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television."
41
"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
40
"I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive."
40
"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."
39
"I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult."
39
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
38
"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."
38
"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."
37
"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
37
"I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras."
37
"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."
37
"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."
37
"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."
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