Television Quotes - Page 56

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.

Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.

The fans have access to the show and the creators, even if it's not direct. I don't know any television creators that don't follow the message boards. The feedback is so immediate, to see what is working and what isn't, and what's working better than you anticipated.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

The challenge is that we live in a time where there's a lot of crap on television.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.