Television Quotes - Page 65

The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

I can say that. I have a television show.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

I was raised on NBC television.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

I think that's important to have in something like a national television show. It's important to portray a woman realistically, and not just as a bridezilla.

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.