Television Quotes - Page 52

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I originally read for the roles of Debra and Rita [in Dexter], because they didn't know what direction they were going in, and I worked so hard on Deb, because I just wanted to swear. I wanted to say all those nasty words. That was it: "I want to swear on television!".

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

I feel like it's a golden age for television.

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television.

I was on 'Desperate Housewives' and that was my crash course on being on national television topless. Also, I do what I can in between scenes: push-ups, a little free weights. I knew going in it would be a big part of the show.

I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when Bill Clinton got the nomination. That was certainly a part of my growing interest in politics.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.