Television Quotes

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
J. J. Abrams

Learning, Thinking, Looking

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
J. J. Abrams

Ability, Advantage, Series

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
J. J. Abrams

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
Gene Simmons

Life, Everybody, Books

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.
Clive Anderson

God, Strong, Person

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Raymond Chandler

Society, Soft, Standard

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.
Dominic Monaghan

Good, Talk, Between

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.
Dominic Monaghan

Acting, Film, Face

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S. I. Hayakawa

Age, Important, Image

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'
Chuck D.

Yourself, Past, Whatever

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.
Lea Michele

Beauty, Money, Cool

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.
Donny Osmond

Life, Career, Child

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai Stevenson

Dreams, Freedom, Car

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
Larry Hagman

Sports, Watch, News

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.
Larry Hagman

Great, Wife, Career

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
Pamela Anderson

Off, Leave, Room

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
Pamela Anderson

Career, Another, Show

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.
John Bolton

Somebody, Anybody, Appreciate

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
Katey Sagal

Long, Sometimes, Able

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
Anna Deavere Smith

Show, Movie, Violent

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt

Movies, Live, Free

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.
Dave Chappelle

Done, Ridiculous, Network

My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.
Anna Torv

Mom, Through, Friends

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.
Ian Somerhalder

Amazing, Cool, Mean

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
Umberto Eco

Down, Difficult, Attention

I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.
Carrie-Anne Moss

Awesome, Film, Influence

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.
Jane Campion

Love, Story, Within

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.
Jane Campion

Hard, Film, Quite

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.
Jane Campion

Everything, Piano, Ends

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.
Jane Campion

Acting, Between, Wanted

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