Tvs Quotes - Page 18

At first all I wanted to be was famous; then I realized that fame had nothing to do with talent. I felt that I didn't do anything quite well enough, that I was one of those people who was famous but not very talented. So I said, okay, I'll be the Dinah Shore of the Seventies, on TV all the time but nobody quite knows why.

If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.

TV is part of your life - it makes you feel connected to the rest of the world - as opposed to someone else's perspective crushed into a few hours.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

I guess for me - in the TV commercial world I was known for shooting locations, beautiful landscapes and things like that - so, it's interesting.

I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.

We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.