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Television Quotes


"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."


"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."


"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."


"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."


"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."


"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."


"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."


"I don't think I miss anything by not watching television."


"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."


"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."


"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."


"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."



"If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."
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