Television Quotes - Page 67

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it.

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.

American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

I'm a worker. I like to work and I like to provide work for other people. I like to put people on my show who normally would never have a chance at being on television.

I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that we're in.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me.

When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?

Game Of Thrones is arguably the hottest thing on television.

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.